https://ggulati.com/ Articles and links from Gurwinder Gulati. en-us https://ggulati.com/links/2026/11-01.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/11-01.html Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>on physical architecture &amp; buildings</p> <ul><li><a href="https://stephenjgallagher.substack.com/p/ai-can-draw-blueprints-now">AI Can Draw Blueprints Now</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-30.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-30.html Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://lethain.com/adopting-verification-pattern/">Self-reinforcing quality / adopting verification pattern</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/hillel-joins-antithesis/">Why Antithesis? | Antithesis</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer">An NES CPU compiled into the weights of a stock Qwen3.5 model</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-28.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-28.html Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://lethain.com/decisions-not-dates/">Roadmap decisions rather than dates.</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-27.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-27.html Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>As an example of the wave of cyber attacks that ramped up steeply over the last 1.5w</p> <ul><li><a href="https://finance.biggo.com/news/df996870-669e-466e-beaf-1e9fd3ab6f5f">Hackers Threaten to Leak Customer Data in Cyberattack on Japan&apos;s GMO After $1 Million Ransom Demand Rejected</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://mgratzer.com/posts/reforging-the-workflow/">Reforging the Workflow : Where the Human Goes When Agents Ship</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://felixrieseberg.com/hunger-beats-tenure-advice-for-junior-engineers/">Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-26.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-26.html Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-deploy-trillion-parameter-frontier-models-on-cerebras">How we deploy Trillion-parameter frontier models on Cerebras</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227356">Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/hoc/">The Hierarchy of Controls (or how to stop devs from dropping prod)</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/articles/2026/verification.html https://ggulati.com/articles/2026/verification.html Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT You want a software factory or even merely hyper-fast agentic development, without devolving into a low quality, buggy product[1]. In the old days[2], I would spin off half a dozen agents, bottling lightning to produce oodles of functionality - and then end up spending much of my day testing their work. https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-25.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-25.html Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.tylerhogge.com/blog/a-few-thoughts-on-intensity/">A few thoughts on intensity.</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50232035">A few thoughts on intensity (2024) | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://buildingslack.com/salesforce-part-two/">Salesforce – Part Two</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1xe6ccl/shigeru_miyamoto_on_generative_ai_and_the/">Shigeru Miyamoto on Generative AI and the Difference Between “Creating” and “Doing the Work” | Reddit</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-24.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-24.html Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/hd72yt/software_is_slow_because_bad_design_not">Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages | Lobsters</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/opinion/interesting-times-tyler-cowen-michael-kratsios.html">‘A Golden Age of Science’ Brought to You by the White House</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://bbtree.xiangpeng.systems/post/">bbtree: fastest ordered map</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://staysaasy.com/strategy/2026/07/16/what-id-tell-my-team-about-competition.html">What I&apos;d Tell My Team About Competition</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-23.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-23.html Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.uber.com/gb/en/blog/ubers-rate-limiting-system/">Uber’s Rate Limiting System</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://x.com/JesusFerna7026/status/2112883097264181362">Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on X: &quot;Will AI poison the public finances of many modern states?&quot;</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/N1Fkd">Is a robot running the Fed?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/ben-lamm-raises-200m-for-warhound-to-engineer-war-dogs-and-arm-them-with-anduril-gear/">Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://openai.com/index/securing-our-frontier-model-training-environment/ ">Securing our frontier model training environment</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50214416">Securing our frontier model training environment | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-22.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-22.html Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/you-could-do-it-alone/">You could do it alone</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Personalized cancer vaccines, an exciting development on the mRNA front - been looking forward to this since covid vaccines. Also key is the trial methodology, which reflects the FDA evolving their guidelines - there are a ton of drugs in the works at all times, and clinical trials are by far the bottleneck.</p> <ul><li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/personalized-mrna-cancer-vaccine-cut-melanoma-death-recurrence-by-42/">Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification">LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-21.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-21.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.vikramsingh.me/increase-your-slope">Increase your slope</a></li></ul></div><div><p><a href="https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-17.html#speeding-up-code-review-with-small-change">Speeding up code review with <code>small-change</code></a></p> <p>Haven't even started yet but Larson is always excellent &amp; insightful; I've been reading &amp; sharing his articles for years (a decade?)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://youtu.be/Prl858_AovM">The revised rules of engineering management with Will Larson</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-20.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-20.html Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/come-to-brazil/">Come to Brazil</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/">eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166579">eMudhra intermediate CA compromise | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/veradermics-oral-hair-loss-drug-shown-boost-hair-growth-late-stage-study-2026-10-19/">Veradermics&apos; oral hair-loss drug shown to boost hair growth in late-stage study</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-19.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-19.html Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/doing-business-in-the-dark-forest/">Doing Business in the Dark Forest</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://planetscale.com/blog/the-feedback-loops-behind-kubernetes">The feedback loops behind Kubernetes</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-18.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-18.html Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://samf.substack.com/p/drowning-in-slop">Drowning in slop</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-17.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-17.html Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://lethain.com/small-changes/">Speeding up code review with `small-change`</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-16.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-16.html Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://claude.dev/blog/solving-code-review-at-anthropic/">How the Claude Code team does code review</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-14.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-14.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/z8CfX">A Demographic Mirage May Be Distorting China’s Economic Ambitions</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-13.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-13.html Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://paxmachina.ai/to-keep-human-judgment-we-need-ai-courts">To Keep Human Judgment, We Need AI Courts</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Capital devouring mega IPOs!</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/ipo-postponements-are-accelerating-in-third-quarter-even-beyond-oura.html">IPO postponements are accelerating in third quarter, even beyond Oura</a></li></ul></div><div><p>In the near future, making a game will be as easy as making a video (with all that implies wrt floor &amp; ceilings both)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/playground-experimental-gaming-platform/">Introducing Playground: Create and play custom games</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.idc.com/resource-center/press-releases/idc-pc-tracker-3q26/">PC Market Woes Continue: Shipments Fall 20.1% in Q3 2026 as Pull-In Hangover and Supply Constraints Bite</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069499">11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://felixrieseberg.com/how-to-be-more-ambitious-a-tutorial-for-humans-with-models/">How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-12.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-12.html Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/RCvaM">The countries most threatened by turbulent bond markets</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/FM4B2">It’s a Tough Time to Launch a Hedge Fund</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-11.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-11.html Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/the-chinese-ai-infrastructure-boom">The Chinese AI Infrastructure Boom: Introducing the SemiAnalysis China Datacenter Model</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-10.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-10.html Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://copyconstruct.medium.com/how-to-effectively-debug-when-you-no-longer-understand-the-code-bd3dcb2c5f7b">How to effectively debug when you no longer understand the code</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/09/28/i-would-like-the-value-of-my-home-to-rise-while-my-property-taxes-fall/">I Would Like the Value of My Home to Rise, While My Property Taxes Fall</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://rea.tools/">Find out how software works.</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50028275">REA Reverse – Engineer Anything | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/how-ai-will-reshape-public-opinion">How AI Will Reshape Public Opinion</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-army-built-an-ai-talent-pipeline-but-its-filled-with-career-killing-roadblocks/">The Army Built an AI Talent Pipeline—But It’s Filled with Career-Killing Roadblocks</a></li></ul></div><div><p>More on the software factory angle; v inevitable. I've been saying everyone wants to be the AWS of the software factory (see Spotify's recent announcement, Ramp; and closer to the actual product space is Linear, Cursor and ofc the labs)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://boristane.com/blog/self-improving-software-is-inevitable/">Self-improving software is inevitable</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-09.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-09.html Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://sunilpai.dev/posts/collecting-favours/">Collecting favours</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-08.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-08.html Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p><a href="https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-07.html#the-french-economy-has-a-boomer-problem-and-is-spending-way">The French economy has a boomer problem and is spending way too much on pensions</a></p> <ul><li><a href="https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/whats-the-matter-with-france">What’s the Matter With France?</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-07.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-07.html Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/anti-patterns-software-blogging/">Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging</a></li><li><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/rwdufq/anti_patterns_software_blogging">Lobsters</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://auderdy.com/2026/10/06/till-we-have-faces/">“Till We Have Faces”</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://theconversation.com/the-french-economy-has-a-boomer-problem-and-is-spending-way-too-much-on-pensions-264912">The French economy has a boomer problem and is spending way too much on pensions</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-06.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-06.html Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/">The lamps in my house</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965152">The lamps in my house | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-drone-delivery">DoorDash Air Unveils Drone Delivery System for Local Businesses</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/HrE8Y">Amazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image Problem</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/you-dont-need-to-hate-people-to-save">Who does the Center for Biological Diversity actually represent?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.utahbusiness.com/industry/2026/10/06/utah-becomes-first-state-to-authorize-ai-to-issue-initial-prescriptions/">Utah becomes first state to authorize AI to issue initial prescriptions</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-05.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-05.html Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.adexchanger.com/privacy/apple-has-far-reaching-plans-to-block-hundreds-of-programmatic-data-companies-from-ios/">Apple Has Far-Reaching Plans To Block Hundreds Of Programmatic Data Companies From iOS</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.mercor.com/blog/human-baselines-for-benchmarks-ai-now-outperforms-junior-accountants/">Human Baselines for Benchmarks: AI Now Outperforms Junior Accountants</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/">Apple and a Hacker’s Future</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49962857">Apple and a hacker&apos;s future | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-03.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-03.html Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/01/13/examples-of-floating-point-problems/">Examples of floating point problems</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706">Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-02.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-02.html Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.markkoyama.com/p/was-anglo-saxon-england-really-wealthy">Was Anglo-Saxon England Really Wealthy?</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-01.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/10-01.html Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss">Here’s How Delhi Achieved Its Epic Power-Grid Fix</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892245">How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/immigration-advocate-sues-border-agents-for-demanding-his-cell-phone/">Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant.</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920234">Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.techpowerup.com/353296/micron-ceo-says-memory-supply-will-be-much-tighter-in-2027-and-2028-than-in-2026">Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920932">Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026 | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-29.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-29.html Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host">You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891295">Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-stations-false-positive">Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891480">500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/mosquitoes-are-a-choice/">Mosquitoes are a choice</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-28.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-28.html Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870367">When did Google get so weird? | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/how-far-in-the-future-should-you-be-trying-to-live/">How Far in the Future Should You Be Trying to Live?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/portland-real-estate-is-such-a-mess-that-all-housing-is-affordable-housing-26bbea6a">Portland Real Estate Is Such a Mess That All Housing Is Affordable Housing</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-26.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-26.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>"My biggest takeaway is that there is more low-hanging fruit out there than you’d expect. Even when a goal is simple and well-defined, sometimes it’s going to look much less achievable to experts than it actually is. There are people with a computer science background who’ve been telling me for years that amplitudeologists could make a lot more progress just by hiring a few programmers. They should feel vindicated."</p> <p>see also: every field will become [computational X], b/c it's tractable - see also Seeing Like a State etc etc. Lots of career futures cross-applying SV techniques to other industries, even if SV employment reduces over time (analagous to manufacturing/automation). I would guess a decade or more of dissemination - so if SV gets to "AGI" by 2030, and only has highly technical PMs / no SWE type role exists, could still do quite a lot until 2040 in other fields.</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/yes-claude-can-do-nine-loops">Yes, Claude can do Nine Loops</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/longreads-open-thread-202/">Longreads + Open Thread</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-25.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-25.html Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/china-secret-nuclear-weapon-sites-xi/">Xi&apos;s nuclear weapons expansion at seven secret sites</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://game.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog/">The clinical trial bottlenecks game</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://yangky11.github.io/blog/ai-and-formalization/">What Happens When Formalization Becomes Cheap?</a></li></ul></div><div><p>This is super interesting. Obvious parallel with LLMs! Get your env &amp; feedback etc right (see ZLM article earlier) and let hill climbing (RL or natural selection) do the work</p> <ul><li><a href="https://x.com/NikoMcCarty/status/2103496133754675340">Niko McCarty. on X: &quot;Pioneer Labs recently announced they&apos;ve made a microbe capable of growing on Mars...&quot;</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/controlling-reasoning-effort-in-llms">Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-24.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-24.html Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html">The Story of Mel</a></li><li><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/wf4wid/story_mel">Lobsters</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/weapons-of-mass-decentralization/">Weapons of mass decentralization</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://developers.meta.com/blog/meta-connect-recap-horizon-create-and-horizon-studio/">Meta Connect Recap: Sign Up for Early Access to Horizon Create and Horizon Studio</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-23.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-23.html Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>"Toy sales among adult-only households have now outpaced households with children for toy sales, growing 16% through June, according to market research group Circana, equivalent to 55% of total toy industry receipts. Toy sales among all adults are growing 25%, only slightly behind the teen group at 33%. Together, teens and adults generated nearly 60% of the industry’s incremental dollar gains in the first half, Circana said."</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/toys-r-us-opening-120-new-stores-rcna598543">Toys ‘R’ Us is opening 120 new stores as grownup collectors fuel toy sales</a></li></ul></div><div><p>good discussion, tracks with my observation that medium - high is the best efficiency/ROI</p> <p>also side note, Opus 5.5 is p good, Fable-class behavior but much faster (speculation is it's distilled from a Fable 6-type model, hence it's fewer parameters than the prior Opus and hence better performance [&amp; economics] for inference).</p> <p>Haven't tried the new Sol yet. The new Luna is way better, the older one was price efficient but mediocre; this one is quite decent and "fumbles less" on low-medium complexity tasks</p> <ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804316">Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max) | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-current-balance-of-power-in-open">The current balance of power in open models</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49808816">The current balance of power in open models | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p><a href="https://ggulati.com/links/2026/08-17.html#apple-changes-its-rules-for-personalised-advertising-in-apps">Apple changes its rules for personalised advertising in apps</a></p> <ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801939">Apple has added persistent &apos;ads&apos; to iOS, and it&apos;s driving users crazy | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://claude.dev/blog/how-we-made-claude-ai-faster/">How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://michaelheap.com/i-dont-want-the-details/">I don&apos;t want the details</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815466">I don&apos;t want the details | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-22.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-22.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>Really good migration discussion, including key decisions like incremental vs big bang migration</p> <ul><li><a href="https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/migrating-the-github-copilot-runtime-to-rust-using-copilot/">Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://pleometric.net/articles/brief-practical-advice-for-short-form-brainrot/">Brief Practical Advice for Short-Form Brainrot</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://linear.app/now/ci-bottleneck-reworked">AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://nathan.rs/posts/gzip-lm/">Can gzip be a language model?</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797323">Can gzip be a language model? | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>"Scaling RL, Fully Open-Sourced</p> <p>Along the way we worked through the research and engineering problems of RL training, and we streamed the production run live as it happened. In under six days, MiMo-V2.6-Flash and MiMo-V2.6-Pro each completed 30 RL steps over roughly 750k trajectories, at a cost of about $0.85M and $2.62M respectively.”</p> <ul><li><a href="https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6">MiMo-V2.6 | Xiaomi</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792730">MiMo v2.6 | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-21.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-21.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/20/what-sun-got-wrong/">What Sun got wrong</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787436">What Sun got wrong | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/forward-deployed/">Forward Deployed</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-20.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-20.html Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.skepdic.com/forer.html">Forer effect</a></li><li>related: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading#The_rainbow_ruse">Cold reading</a></li></ul></div><div><p>The author, Jay Dragon, has designed a bunch of good/award winning indie rpgs, from Wanderhome to Yazeba's Bed &amp; Breakfast, to recently the 7 Part Pact</p> <ul><li><a href="https://possumcreek.medium.com/the-three-secrets-of-making-games-dcdd2c22d6e2">The Three Secrets of Making Games</a></li><li>related: <a href="https://lukegearing.blot.im/against-incentive">Against Incentive</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://x.com/nafonsopt/status/2101657040418427272">LLMs &amp; one shotting saving games (or not)</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magazine/ny-public-schools-black-students-segregation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ClE.c5tX.gpav3lpAvE4N">In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-now-knows-what-you-do-on-other-websites-via-ad-collector/">ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776729">ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/09/20/samsung-to-double-hbm4-output-next-year-sources-say">Samsung to Double HBM4 Output Next Year, Sources Say</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778029">Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://lethain.com/software-factory-experiment/">Trying the Software factory pattern.</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777913">Trying the software factory pattern | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-19.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-19.html Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>Semi agreed? I think incremental bets vs big bang project is the framing I would take - don't disappear with a big project, but do a small spike, the simplest mvp (some data analysis &amp; if statements instead of an ML model, to show personalization works), prove product market fit, iterate &amp; scale.</p> <p>Equally true for infra &amp; tooling projects! Make the spike (&lt;1d with AI), solve your problem / team's problem, see if others use it + respond fast to feedback (both ideas &amp; bugs), then scale to your org then scale to the company.</p> <ul><li><a href="https://sunilpai.dev/posts/the-senior-engineer-death-spiral/">the senior engineer death spiral</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-18.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-18.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-13-filtering-with-inverted-indexes">Filtering with Inverted Indexes</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/23520">sql: implement zig-zag merge join #23520</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Shared in the Turbopuffer tech talk</p> <ul><li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08566:">SPANN: Highly-efficient Billion-scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search</a></li><li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14452:">SPFresh: Incremental In-Place Update for Billion-Scale Vector Search</a></li><li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12497:">RaBitQ: Quantizing High-Dimensional Vectors with a Theoretical Error Bound for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search</a></li><li><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589263:">BtrBlocks: Efficient Columnar Compression for Data Lakes</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/why-i-didnt-sign-the-fields-medallists-letter/">Gowers&apos;s Weblog</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738091">Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>"We call this approach "dense feedback."...</p> First, feedback must be sufficiently local. Wherever possible, it should be tied to specific engine launch parameters, code changes, kernels, input conditions, threads, execution intervals, or code paths, helping the agent narrow the scope of the problem. For example, instead of reporting that "model accuracy dropped after a fusion optimization," identifying the output differences for a specific request before and after the change gives the agent a better basis for constructing a minimal reproduction and analyzing the cause. ⁠Second, feedback must be inexpensive and timely to obtain. Whenever the agent proposes a hypothesis, makes a change, or constructs a set of controlled experiments, it should have an appropriate way to validate it. Questions that can be answered by a kernel test or a local microbenchmark should not require a full service deployment and end-to-end load test every time. Shorter validation cycles help the agent correct course promptly and spend less effort on unproductive hypotheses. ⁠Third, feedback must support objective verification. Whether a change is correct and whether performance has improved should be determined by reference implementations, test results, and comparable experimental metrics. Runtime signals can help the agent identify possible causes, but correlations between observations alone cannot establish a root cause. Controlled experiments are still needed to verify whether a change to a specific path produces the expected effect.” <ul><li><a href="https://z.ai/blog/glm-built-its-inference-infrastructure">Toward Recursive Self-Improvement: How GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49737922">How GLM built its own inference infrastructure | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-openai">Hacking OpenAI</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749656">A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/the-best-philosophy-article-of-2025">The Best Philosophy Article of 2025 is Bad Economics</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/education-as-an-ai-safety-area">Education as an AI safety area</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Pretty related!</p> <p>"why aren't you pushing agents well beyond tasks they can tackle so easily?"</p> <p>Agreed! Though they need affordances (verification, observability - see GLM article above) so focus on those. Someone else phrased it as "being the platform team for your AI"</p> <ul><li><a href="https://danluu.com/brain-off/">There&apos;s no point at which turning your brain off will work</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-17.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-17.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>went to a Turbopuffer tech talk last night, they focused on the napkin math / first principles / physical limit a lot - was checking today, and this article basically covers everything they presented!</p> <ul><li><a href="https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/pushing-software-engineering-limits">Pushing software engineering limits with “napkin math”</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-15.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-15.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>surprisingly even handed</p> <ul><li><a href="https://colossus.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-profile/">Mark Zuckerberg Profile</a></li></ul></div><div><p>useful to compare China to US lenses on AI, e.g. nuclear energy vs nuclear weapons</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.richardhanania.com/p/why-is-china-not-freaking-out-about">Why Is China Not Freaking Out about AGI?</a></li></ul></div><div><p>"China’s first AI-generated longform TV series" (translated article)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tisP1mKSONlpE_8kjnDc1V3u6c9dRe1F1gjb6xPwod8/edit">Translated:How an AI-generated longform TV series costing 900,000 RMB per episode drove a 13</a></li><li><a href="https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/0xPW0LXVahvg8QFqQXNBGQ">Original: China’s first AI-generated longform TV series</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/openai-software-factory">Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-14.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-14.html Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>Interesting approach, key challenge is effectively extremely hot shards (very large discord servers with 2B messages or more)</p> <p>I do wonder if they could have had a very different approach with building on top of Lucene more directly, but they're pretty tied to ElasticSearch and ofc have saved a ton of time building out platform tech at the expense of compute</p> <ul><li><a href="https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-indexes-trillions-of-messages">How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages</a></li></ul></div><div><p>see also: catamorphisms, reduce is the cata for lists much like treeFold is the cata for trees (which I used at Netflix Marketing Tech for fanning out A/B tests over arbitrary platforms' ad setups, which are basically trees [AdCampaign -&gt; AdGroup -&gt; AdSet -&gt; Ad etc] - much to the dismay of my poor colleagues, in retrospect)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/dhn991/anecdotally_programmers_dislike_reduce">Anecdotally, programmers dislike &quot;reduce&quot;</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Also Meta Muse is a good chance to try out a personal agent (OpenClaw/Hermes/etc etc) for free / greatly subsidized. They give you 100MM tokens of Muse Spark 1.3</p> <p>Can also use it for a software factory, see MuseFactory which it put together (extremely vibecoded off me telling it how to build a /develop skill, then put Erlang OTP on top of that)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://github.com/GGulati/MuseFactory">MuseFactory</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Note that Muse Spark is competitive w/ e.g. Codex Luna but much cheaper - Pareto efficient etc but can't do complex high scope orchestration like Fable or Astra. (any other open source ish model is more expensive than Muse Spark for similar perf, see https://opencode.ai/docs/go/#usage-limits + benchmarks eg ArenaAI)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://opencode.ai/docs/go/#usage-limits">OpenCode Go Usage Limits</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/the-economics-and-politics-of-pacing-the-frontier/">The Economics and Politics of Pacing the Frontier</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-13.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-13.html Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>but the hard part is standard disruption I think - "worse is better" -&gt; cheap knowledge work entirely swaps out for better-but-expensive metis work, rather than slow trickle thru (as is the whole story of industrialization, see also McDonalds &amp; fast fashion)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/09/a-simple-model-of-ai-aided-economic-growth.html">A simple model of AI-aided economic growth</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-12.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-12.html Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/lg-strongly-denies-tv-security-claims-says-tracking-and-snooping-concerns-not-true-online-investigation-claims-216-000-000-spy-tvs-record-audio">LG strongly denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns &apos;not true&apos; — online investigation claims 216,000,000 TVs spy and record audio</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645480">LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns &apos;not true&apos; | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-12/juveniles-riding-in-waymo-arrested-after-police-find-ghost-gun">Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had ‘ghost gun,’ authorities say</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672549">Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had &apos;ghost gun&quot; | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-space-async-await/">A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49626718">A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-11.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-11.html Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-day-of-week">A faster way to calculate the day of the week</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/have-we-destroyed-childhood?_sp=485d8cf4-d226-423b-8fe7-e0ded904bd85.1789020056764">Have We Destroyed Childhood?</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-10.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-10.html Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://writing.antonleicht.me/p/escape-velocity">Escape Velocity</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260909-00/?p=112683">What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49640646">What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026">Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-09.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/09-09.html Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/building-codex-with-tibo-sottiaux">The Pragmatic Engineer</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://tautology.town/2026/06/01/card-networks.html">What do Visa and Mastercard do? 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Is Surging Across Africa. That Should Worry Silicon Valley.</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Painful to read LLM slop unfortunately, even if the core ideas might be worthwhile</p> <p>They were inspired by <a href="https://dev.37signals.com/introducing-solid-queue/">Solid Queue</a> which is much more readable</p> <ul><li><a href="https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations">We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations—and it scaled</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226536">We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/">Fastmail offers EU data region</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223082">Fastmail offers EU data region | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>I read so much of Amit when I was in HS learning 2D game programming; great to see he's still creating tutorials &amp; lessons. His demos are great interactive ways to learn, and an inspiration for how much I love interactive applets/demos for teaching (see <a href="https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-12.html#membership-101-applet">Membership 101</a>) &amp; understanding (at work, I turned our huge set of data science dashboards/graphs into an interactive globe a la <a href="https://stripe.com/blog/globe">Stripe</a>, where you can click around to visualize fraud, payment success, different payment method usage, etc)</p> <p>At the time, the cutting edge of pathfinding algos (that I knew of, between game programming &amp; robotics) were D*, D* Lite, and symmetry-breaking D*: <a href="https://nhsjs.com/2020/dstar-lite-an-optimal-algorithm-for-robotics-pathfinding/">Dstar Lite: An Optimal Algorithm for Robotics Pathfinding</a></p> <p>Also navmeshes (simplifying the map into a handful of graph nodes, rather than a large number of tiles), hierarchical planners, partial refinement A* - useful for dynamic games, where otherwise much of pathfinding would have to be thrown away or recompute; and for frame budgets, where you can do partial computation for many units efficiently. 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The startup is structured as a public benefit corporation."</p> <p>A huge deal for Google’s potential to be a top-few AI lab player</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/google-shakes-up-ai-leadership-deepmind-chief-shifts-role-2026-08-05/">Google shakes up AI leadership as DeepMind chief shifts role</a></li><li><a href="https://www.discoveryloop.com/">Discovery Loop — Continuous Exploration</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.404media.co/cops-used-flock-to-track-a-man-across-state-lines-to-create-pretext-to-search-his-car-for-weed/">Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://franciscotrindade.me/blog/the-kids-are-alright/">The Kids Are Alright</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182957">Not hiring junior engineers won&apos;t solve the problem you think you have | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/">Pi, Minimal and Performant</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176038">Pi&apos;s Minimalism Is Its Advantage | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/raccoon-heist/">One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Catan, Risk, and Poker against a range of agents</p> <ul><li><a href="https://olamlabs.ai/">Olam Labs — Multi-Agent Arena</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Begun, the pricing wars have</p> <ul><li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/meta-launches-muse-code-an-ai-agent-for-large-code-bases/">Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases</a></li><li><a href="https://developer.meta.com/ai/products/meta-model-api/">Meta Model API</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/08-04.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/08-04.html Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-ban-on-foreign-made-robots-includes-robot-vacuums">FCC: Ban on Foreign-Made Robots Includes Robot Vacuums</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/odd-shapes-hidden-dense-amazon-rainforest-reveal-sprawling-ancient-civilization">Odd shapes hidden in dense Amazon rainforest reveal sprawling ancient civilization</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://ochagavia.nl/blog/that-time-when-i-failed-the-microsoft-interview/">That time when I failed the Microsoft interview</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095386">That time when I failed the Microsoft interview | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hackers-targeted-municipal-water-systems-7-states-week-fbi-says-rcna590210">Hackers targeted municipal water systems in 7 states this week, FBI says</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/nbcuniversal-youtube-peacock-premium-subscribers.html">NBCUniversal and YouTube ink deal to embed Peacock in the video platform for premium subscribers</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/u7xOY">How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/x3rRS">Ferrari hits 2026 sales target for polarising Luce EV within two months</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://freesystems.substack.com/p/mapping-americas-political-conversations">Mapping America’s Political Conversations with Claude</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/08-03.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/08-03.html Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://defector.com/abandoned-fish-sauce-canada-interview">Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125168">Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/how-norway-s-salmon-industry-became-a-global-behemoth/106949872">Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it&apos;s facing the consequences</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078283">Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it&apos;s facing the consequences | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Good discussion!</p> <ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149746">Why Book Corners won&apos;t sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/who-hedges-where/">Who Hedges Where?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://digiday.com/media/time-has-started-serving-ads-to-ai-agents/">Time has started serving ads to AI agents</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://jasmi.news/p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyard">No Data Centers In My Backyard</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/08-02.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/08-02.html Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/why-doordash-instacart-and-uber-eats">Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Terence Tao AI talk slides:</p> <ul><li><a href="https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/age-of-ai-icm-2026.pdf">Mathematics in the age of AI</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/NIw0Z">The Rise of Million-Dollar Companies With Just One Employee</a></li></ul></div><div><p>I was thinking of writing a blog article on this, but there are people talking about one-shot "uber prompts" to create simulations/demos/games (see also: r/aigamedev). I tried it out myself over ~10h of autonomous Codex, and it does an incredible job of a lot of features at very low quality. Very impressive in a way, but also extremely funny how much throwaway work it does (because it auto-critics itself constantly, it often redoes a lot of work, especially on graphics).</p> <ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140998">Karpathy’s Pelican | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://youtu.be/wa4I8Ch2TRo">Christopher Nolan talks narrative decisions, film critics and whether he Christianised The Odyssey</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-31.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-31.html Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.exe.dev/billable-facts">Stripe Just Wants a Number</a></li><li><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/ri8bav/stripe_just_wants_number">Stripe Just Wants a Number | Lobsters</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.google/security/chrome-stronger-with-every-update/">Stronger with every update: How we’re making Chrome and the web safer in the AI Era</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120097">Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://earendil.com/posts/session-portability/">The Session You Cannot Take With You</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118781">The session you cannot take with you | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://mattsclancy.github.io/2026/07/27/industrial-revolution-growth.html">Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive economic growth today?</a></li></ul></div><div><p>a classic interview question</p> <ul><li><a href="https://john.fun/elevators">Elevators</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124218">Elevators | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/0Qdme">Weve moved from income world to wealth world</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/contra-pritchard-on-liberal-happiness">Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-30.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-30.html Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1v9z4vi/we_made_361657_gross_revenue_in_the_first_24/">We made $361,657 gross revenue in the first 24 hours after releasing our 4 month game</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://indevelopmentmag.com/mystery-of-short-indian-children/">The Mystery of Short Indian Children</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/">Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111237">Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/">Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112744">Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.statecraft.pub/p/the-james-c-scott-memorial-episode">The James C. Scott Memorial Episode</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/autonomously-run-businesses">GPT 5.6 Sol Ran a Real Business</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113059">We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html">The Economic Benefit of Refactoring</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111176">The Economic Benefit of Refactoring | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/beware-the-permanent-periphery">Beware the Permanent Periphery</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-29.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-29.html Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline">Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098466">Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/americans-know-who-the-real-elite">The elites aren&apos;t who you think they are</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/why-compute-might-get-10x-more-expensive">Why compute might get 10x more expensive in coming years</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-28.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-28.html Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/the-apples-and-oranges-tribunal.html">The Apples and Oranges Tribunal</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3819083">Beyond Zero: Enterprise security for the AI era</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081644">Google&apos;s Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://fermisense.com/when-machines-take-the-wheel/">The Rise of Intelligence Ownership</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078454">A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://coreweave.com/blog/nvidia-vera-rubin-nvl72-on-coreweave-10x-more-tokens-per-megawatt-than-blackwell">NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 on CoreWeave: 10x More Tokens Per Megawatt Than Blackwell</a></li></ul></div><div><p>"Investors will re-price Shein away from a pure hyper-growth tech platform toward a physical retail and logistics player navigating high-friction global trade."</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/shein-will-struggle-justify-40-50-billion-hong-kong-ipo-valuation-2026-07-27/">Shein will struggle to justify up to $50 billion Hong Kong IPO valuation</a></li></ul></div><div><p>"Google is learning the lesson Apple learned the hard way with all the existing features of iOS that were deemed noncompliant with the DMA when it went into effect. The “ship it first and ask forgiveness / hope it’s deemed compliant” strategy is not a good one in the EU."</p> <ul><li><a href="https://daringfireball.net/2026/07/ec_google_guidance_android_ai_and_search_sharing">European Commission: ‘Guidance to Google for AI Interoperability on Android &amp; Sharing of Google Search’</a></li><li>Google’s response: <a href="https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/around-the-globe/google-europe/the-dma-should-not-undercut-security-privacy-for-europeans/">The DMA should not undercut security &amp; privacy for Europeans</a></li><li>Related: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-criticises-eu-measures-help-ai-rivals-access-google-services-2026-05-13/">Apple criticises EU measures to help AI rivals access Google services</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://engineering.fb.com/2026/07/15/ai-research/exploring-hierarchical-interest-representation-for-meta-ads-deep-funnel-optimization/">Exploring Hierarchical Interest Representation for Meta Ads Deep Funnel Optimization</a></li></ul></div><div><p>More agreement this is a marathon, not a sprint!</p> <p>"He believes China has built-in advantages in cost and user experience, since American companies have no strong reason to push costs to the very limit. He pictures a future where competition looks like that in other manufacturing fields: China will play the role of offering cheaper services in a systematic way. At the same time, he thinks Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem wall is being broken down by new technology, and that building a new ecosystem for Chinese chips is a historic chance. Once the limit on how many chips can be made is overcome, the gap in basic computing power between China and the US will go away."</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.fredgao.com/p/deepseeks-liang-wenfeng-breaks-his">DeepSeek&apos;s Liang Wenfeng Breaks His Silence</a></li></ul></div><div><p>note: no Semianalysis article on this yet, they have good deep dives (but paywalled)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-begins-mass-production-of-domestic-immersion-duv-lithography-machines">China begins mass production of homegrown immersion chipmaking machines in major breakthrough, report claims</a></li><li>See also this recent news (with salt): <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/china-chipmaking-duv-tool-asml-explained.html">China’s reported chip breakthrough comes with some big caveats</a></li></ul></div><div><p>ofc related, but more on the model side</p> <p>"The strategy for China is obvious: commoditize your complements. Note that Xi explicitly ties openness to AI “moving from the digital world into the physical world”; the physical world is the world dominated by China, and the country’s lead in areas like robotics is going to massively benefit from widely available AI models.</p> <p>Along the same lines, China does not want the U.S. to gain an asymmetric advantage in AI; to the extent that China can weaken the U.S. frontier labs while strengthening any and all potential U.S. adversaries so much the better, and it can benefit from the innovation that will attach itself to an open ecosystem."</p> <ul><li><a href="https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/">Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977128">Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/o1nMD">Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off.</a></li></ul></div><div><p>related: Cloudflare’s plan to block Google’s crawler by default Sept 15 onwards</p> <p>"Another change that will apply on September 15 is that multi-purpose crawlers (specifically those that combine Search with Training) will be allowed/blocked according to all of their behaviors, in line with our call for transparency for website owners. Since the defaults will be enforced by the most restrictive applicable rules, multi-purpose crawlers such as Googlebot, Applebot, and BingBot will be blocked by customers who have selected to block Training (either through the new options to manage AI traffic, or through the legacy Block AI bots service)."</p> <ul><li>Previously shared July 26: <a href="https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-26.html#cloudflare-ai-traffic-options">Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-usaid-water-projects-trump-cuts/">Hidden Cost of Trump&apos;s USAID Cuts: Floods, Disease and Poverty</a></li></ul></div><div><p>overall, I see this as an indication that the games industry perceives itself &amp; AI usage etc similar to how artists do (be it audio art, visual art, video, multimedia, etc across genres - hence also including interactive art [games])</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nearly-nine-in-ten-games-industry-workers-believe-genai-use-should-be-disclosed-on-storefronts">Nearly nine in ten games industry workers believe GenAI use should be disclosed on storefronts</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/">AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/discovering-cryptographic-weaknesses">Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49087091">Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-need-a-website/">Substack writers, you need a website!</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086788">Substack writers, you need a website | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://mlugg.co.uk/posts/incremental-compilation-internals/">Inside Zig&apos;s Incremental Compilation</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085666">Zig&apos;s Incremental Compilation Internals | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-anthropic">How building software is changing at Anthropic</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/in-defense-of-gerontocracy">In defense of gerontocracy</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://alifeengineered.substack.com/p/the-art-of-dealing-with-ambiguity-89d">The Art of Dealing with Ambiguity</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/managed-agents">Scaling Managed Agents: Decoupling the brain from the hands</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://openai.com/index/beyond-rate-limits/">Beyond rate limits: scaling access to Codex and Sora</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-27.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-27.html Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/what-will-more-intelligence-actually">What will more intelligence actually do for us?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/should-you-wash-your-solar-panels.html">Should you wash your solar panels?</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49069132">Should you wash your solar panels? | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.techspot.com/news/113236-us-prosecutors-charge-atlanta-man-after-grapheneos-phone.html">US prosecutors charge Atlanta man after GrapheneOS phone wipes itself during airport search</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063022">US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-26.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-26.html Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-ai-options/">Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052564">Cloudflare&apos;s new AI traffic options for customers | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/gatwick-airport-robotic-parking-stanley-robotics/">London Gatwick introduces robotic parking service</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058669">London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-25.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-25.html Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://x.com/i/status/2081086593318703222">Many of you have seen The Odyssey or are about to watch The Odyssey…</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/the-decision-the-sequel.html">The Decision, the sequel</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/friday-feature-mini-cities">Friday Feature: Mini Cities</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/economic-futures-research-fund-agenda">Supporting ambitious external research through the Anthropic Economic Futures Research Fund</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://emily613.substack.com/p/if-you-can-bear-to-hear-the-truth">If you can bear to hear the truth you&apos;ve spoken/ twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools...</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/zohran-mamdani-small-business-policies">‘I’m over the moon’: New York’s small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-24.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-24.html Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://platform.claude.com/cookbook/">Claude Cookbook</a></li><li><a href="https://developers.openai.com/cookbook">OpenAI Cookbook</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031409">Claude Cookbook | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://hhh.hn/hanwha-github-token/">My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034292">My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033240">IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon&apos;s Bahrain data center | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-23.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-23.html Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/marcelroed/gigatoken/">GigaToken: Language model tokenization at GB/s</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010167">GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://mitchellh.com/writing/everyone-should-know-simd">Everyone Should Know SIMD</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010648">Everyone should know SIMD | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/numbers-man-938">Numbers Man</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/does-it-matter-if-you-dont-like-the">Does it matter if you don&apos;t like the characters?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all">What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024691">What happened to TheNumbers.com | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022038">Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-22.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-22.html Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://apnews.com/article/ai-anthropic-copyright-settlement-claude-books-bartz-74b140444023898aeba8579b6e9f0d63">Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sperm-whales-may-make-their-own-vowel-sounds-similar-to-human-language/">Sperm whales may make their own vowel sounds, similar to human language</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/22/sperm-whales-dominica-clicks-vowels-language-changes-shipping-noise-project-ceti">Sperm whales change ‘vowel’ sounds when boats are nearby, scientists discover</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://hatchet.run/blog/postgres-survival-guide">The startup&apos;s Postgres survival guide</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005787">The startup&apos;s Postgres survival guide | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/">LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000864">LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-21.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-21.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/21/cat-and-thariq/">A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-lefts-climate-denial-problem">The left’s climate denial problem</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/07/stellantis-fiat-topolino-ev.html">Stellantis to sell small Fiat Topolino EV for $13,995 in U.S.</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/pki8q">Chinas Insane Car Market Flooded With Hundreds of New Models</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-20.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-20.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://slcyber.io/research-center/exploit-brokers-pay-500000-for-a-wordpress-rce-i-found-one-with-gpt5-6/">Exploit brokers pay $500,000 for a WordPress RCE. I found one with GPT5.6 Sol Ultra and $25</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48975665">I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25 | Hacker News</a></li><li><a href="https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_prompt.pdf">Prompt Used for “A Proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture”</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/">The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977711">The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968606">Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://robotics.xiaomi.com/xiaomi-robotics-1.html">Xiaomi-Robotics-1</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974454">Xiaomi-Robotics-1 | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-registry-database/">Risky Bulletin: Hacker wipes Romania&apos;s entire land registry database</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978605">Hacker wipes Romania&apos;s land registry database | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-19.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-19.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/trial-lawyers-lobby-against-autonomous-vehicles.html">Trial Lawyers Lobby Against Autonomous Vehicles</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-18.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-18.html Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>Their citations are also high quality</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-built-our-knowledge-base">How We Built Our Knowledge Base</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer-buy-paypal-more-than-53-billion-sources-say-2026-07-15/">Stripe, Advent offer to buy PayPal for more than $53 billion, sources say</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915953">Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48957779">GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-15.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-15.html Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.gameaipro.com/">Game AI Pro</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/principal-engineer">Principal Engineer</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to">A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48919363">Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023) | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920432">The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/beijing-is-looking-curbing-overseas-access-chinas-top-ai-models-sources-say-2026-07-07/">Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China&apos;s top AI models, sources say</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/240-banning-ai-in-law-school-weve">240. Banning AI in Law School: We&apos;ve Seen This Before</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.chinatalk.media/p/eastern-data-western-compute-is-fake">“Eastern Data, Western Compute” is Fake</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://x.com/i/status/2069417525947912540">The Ultimate Guide to Build and Scale Consumer Apps - CalAI</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.ayush.digital/blog/the-memory-heist">The Memory Heist</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-14.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-14.html Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://othermeans.substack.com/p/generating-effects">Generating Effects</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-13.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-13.html Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://systima.ai/blog/claude-code-vs-opencode-token-overhead">Claude Code Is Way More Token-Hungry Than OpenCode. We Measured Exactly How Much</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883275">Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://research.google/blog/the-power-of-collaboration-how-we-can-reduce-traffic-congestion/">The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881967">How we can reduce traffic congestion | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://antirez.com/news/169">Control the ideas, not the code</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891184">Control the Ideas, Not the Code | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-12.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-12.html Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.seangoedecke.com/pure-and-impure-engineering/">Pure and impure software engineering</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45165753">Pure and Impure Software Engineering | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>100% endorse. I made a very simple interactive applet for the Membership 101 article.</p> <p>I also have been playing around with it for reviewing code at work, and of course for designing new features. Not quite there yet to work generically for visualizing any PR, but a good chance to get there with some effort over a week or two; and ofc model improvements in the next 6m will also help</p> <ul><li><a href="https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/old-and-new-apps-via-modern-coding-agents/">Old and new apps, via modern coding agents</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880170">Old and new apps, via modern coding agents | Hacker News</a></li><li><a href="http://www.ggulati.com/articles/2026/membership-101.html">Membership 101</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.austinvernon.site/blog/ukrainewar.html">How Ukraine Built a War Fighting State</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-11.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-11.html Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://lethain.com/make-no-assumptions/">Make no assumptions.</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-10.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-10.html Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/us/politics/ai-terrorism-boko-haram-nigeria.html">How Terrorist Groups Are Using A.I. to Gain an Edge in Battle</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-09.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-09.html Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.databricks.com/blog/benchmarking-coding-agents-databricks-multi-million-line-codebase">Benchmarking Coding Agents on Databricks&apos; Multi-Million Line Codebase</a></li></ul></div><div><p>v cool demo examples</p> <ul><li><a href="https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/">GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition</a></li></ul></div><div><p>See for example comments on benchmarking</p> <ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846184">Muse Spark 1.1 | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/7/9/ways-to-think-about-token-pricing">Ways to think about token pricing</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/where-the-returns-to-ai-go">Where the returns to AI go</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/">EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 - Breyer: &quot;Our children lose out&quot;</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843923">EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-08.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-08.html Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://competency-gaps.github.io/">Competency Gaps</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108193">Nuclear Waste Cleanup: Changes Needed to Ensure DOE Is Not Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Large Projects</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824826">Nuclear Waste Cleanup: Changes Needed to Ensure DOE Is Not Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Large Projects | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-07.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-07.html Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.jessicariedl.blog/p/so-you-want-to-work-in-washington">So You Want to Work in Washington D.C.?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://tech.yahoo.com/general/articles/world-first-fully-robot-run-184455211.html">World&apos;s First Fully Robot-Run Hotel Is Opening in China</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-the-theorem-economy">The fall of the theorem economy</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758048">The fall of the theorem economy | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/in-praise-of-observational-evidence">In Praise of Observational Evidence</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48748522">In Praise of Observational Evidence | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://tedthoughts.substack.com/p/the-end-of-the-working-writer">The end of the working writer</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/germany-migrants-skilled-workers-integration-labor-market-bureaucracy-language-housing/a-77853162">Why migrants come to Germany for work and then leave again</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48815982">Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-ai-superforecasters-are-here">The AI Superforecasters Are Here</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-06.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-06.html Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/the-siren-song-of-the-golden-share-the-troubled-history-of-government-equity-in-technology/">The Siren Song of the Golden Share: The Troubled History of Government Equity in Technology</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/cultural-stasis-or-just-rising-budgets-a-limited-supply-of-good-movie-release-dates-and-the-kelly-criterion/">Cultural Stasis? Or Just Rising Budgets, a Limited Supply of Good Movie Release Dates, and the Kelly Criterion?</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-05.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-05.html Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>Discussion better than article etc</p> <ul><li><a href="https://unsung.aresluna.org/if-youre-a-button-you-have-one-job/">If you&apos;re a button, you have one job</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790689">If you&apos;re a button, you have one job | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-04.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-04.html Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>Fable prompts - way more ambitious than my current side projects (with Codex)!</p> <ul><li><a href="https://github.com/petergpt/3d-prompt-collection">petergpt/3d-prompt-collection: A presentation-order collection of 3D prompts for copying and reuse.</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad/tree/main">ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad: Command &amp; Conquer Generals: Zero Hour running natively on macOS, iPhone &amp; iPad</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788283">Command &amp; Conquer Generals: Zero Hour running natively on macOS, iPhone &amp; iPad | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-03.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-03.html Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/udprt">How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi - The Atlantic</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Related:</p> <ul><li><a href="https://danluu.com/ai-coding/">Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding from Galapagos Island</a></li><li><a href="https://danluu.com/testing/">Given that we spend little effort on testing, how should we test software?</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-02.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-02.html Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://dynomight.substack.com/p/horse">Integer programming easily encloses horse</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://danielfetz.io/p/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-in-the-united-states">How Many People Have Ever Lived in the United States?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-to-buy-cheap-claude-tokens-in">How to Buy Cheap Claude Tokens in China</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-01.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/07-01.html Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://raiderking.com/inside-chinas-50-billion-gaming-market-and-the-piracy-loophole-threatening-foreign-developers-who-try-to-enter-it/">Inside China&apos;s $50 Billion Gaming Market - And the Piracy Loophole Threatening Foreign Developers Who Try to Enter It</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://pradyuprasad.com/writings/how-to-ask-for-help/">How to ask for help from people who don&apos;t know you</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/">Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746914">Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402 | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-30.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-30.html Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://waag.org/en/article/european-digital-id-wallets-are-gift-google-and-apple/">European digital ID wallets are a gift to Google and Apple</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730729">European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-29.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-29.html Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/the-mythical-agent-minute/">The Mythical Agent-Minute</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://endsdontjustifythemeans.com/p/why-its-all-about-space-stupid">Why it&apos;s all about space, stupid!</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/alan-greenspan-rip">Alan Greenspan, RIP</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.colinbreck.com/when-impressive-performance-gains-do-not-matter/">When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter</a></li><li><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/fok2dp/when_impressive_performance_gains_do_not">When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter | Lobsters</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/supreme-court-geofence-warrants-case-decision">US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720924">US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://danunparsed.com/p/hackerrank-open-source-ats">HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74/100. No - 88/100. Actually 83/100.</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713832">HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No - 88 | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://tidal.com/ai-policy">Tidal AI Policy</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48718840">Tidal AI Policy | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/make-ai-boring-again">Make AI Boring Again</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://jackdanger.com/technical-debt-financing/">Technical Debt Financing</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/eval-smell/">It&apos;s Hard to Eval Is a Product Smell</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709670">GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-28.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-28.html Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>Example of the pitfalls of vibecoded handbooks</p> <ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696982">Fintech Engineering Handbook | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://cephalosec.com/blog/cybersecurity-in-the-post-mythos-era-keep-calm-and-carry-on/">Cybersecurity in the post-mythos era: Keep calm and carry on!</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698559">Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog/p/why-were-covid-vaccine-trials-so-fast">Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast?</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-27.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-27.html Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.weineng.me/posts/slowest_add/">Data Access Patterns That Makes Your CPU Really Angry</a></li><li><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/xmsj3r/data_access_patterns_makes_your_cpu">Data Access Patterns That Makes Your CPU Really Angry | Lobsters</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696585">DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf] | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-radio-chip-design">AI Learns the Dark Art of RF Chip Design</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48660021">AI learns the dark art of RFIC design | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-26.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-26.html Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/war-by-other-means">War by Other Means</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/elon-musks-zero-accountability-life">Yes, Elon Musk is responsible for the deaths of millions</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-25.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-25.html Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>Extremely good for soft skills &amp; business impact (see especially: "Defining DevRel at Google" at 1:29:20)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://youtu.be/UlXpOGIpITM">Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower</a></li></ul></div><div><p>See also: First 90 Days</p> <ul><li><a href="https://keavy.com/work/where-to-start/">Where to Start</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664814">Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/blogging-stating-the-obvious/">Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666927">Blogging can just be stating the obvious | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters/state-mass-surveillance">Democratic and authoritarian countries are competing to see which of them can carry out mass surveillance most and best (worst).</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672764">Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.fashionablylatetakes.com/p/architectural-studies-02">Architectural Studies #02</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.stripeeconomics.com/p/the-age-of-the-solopreneur">The age of the solopreneur</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-the-west-stopped-making-land/">Why the West stopped making land</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.exponentialview.co/p/the-state-of-the-ai-economy">The state of the AI economy</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll">An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675179">An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/25/apple-raises-prices">Apple Raises Prices on Most Products by 15-25 Percent, but Not iPhones, Watches, or AirPods</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672732">Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-24.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-24.html Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://paolino.me/founding-a-company-in-germany/">Founding a Company in Germany: EUR9,600, 152 Days, and I Still Can&apos;t Send an Invoice</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658718">Founding a company in Germany: EUR9600, 152 days and I still can&apos;t send an invoice | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260622-00/?p=112451">In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648959">In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/deadly-fungus-cats-people-spreading">A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658186">A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48659451">Slate EV truck starts at $24,950 | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://ben-mini.com/2026/stealing-is-a-skill">Stealing is a Skill</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48659165">Stealing Is a Skill | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report">Krea 2 Technical Report</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48646659">Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Recommended by a generative model researcher I know (see also: Karpathy's GPT2 youtube series)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://cs336.stanford.edu/">Stanford CS336 | Language Modeling from Scratch</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45965-x">TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.deadcarl.com/p/the-death-of-conquest-and-the-costs">The Death of Conquest and the Costs of Incompetence</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-23.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-23.html Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.abundanceandgrowth.org/p/ai-science-bottleneck">Our grandchildren&apos;s AI-science bottleneck</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/glm-5.2">GLM-5.2 - How to Run Locally</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636377">GLM-5.2 - How to Run Locally | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>see also: cattle, not pets</p> <ul><li><a href="https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/">The Coming Loop</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643180">The Coming Loop | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://ipvm.com/reports/police-chiefs-track">Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634694">Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/21/us/trucks-suv-pedestrian-crashes.html">The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623347">The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/why-is-it-so-hard-for-liberals-to">Why is it so hard for liberals to take the W?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/22/apple-device-prices-when">Apple Is Going to Raise Device Prices - but When?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.aipolicyperspectives.com/p/q-and-a-pangram-ceo">Q&amp;A: Pangram CEO</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-22.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-22.html Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>(based on 2024 data)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/21/rent-collections-are-down-in-new-york-and-no-ones-sure-why-00966982">Rent collections are down in New York and no one&apos;s sure why</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622987">Rent collections are down in New York | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/blind-extrapolation-as-a-powerful-force-in-finance/">Blind Extrapolation as a Powerful Force in Finance</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Lots of debates on utility, but prob will have some demand from consumers but tbd on medical industry</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost">Midjourney Medical</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579650">Midjourney Medical | Hacker News</a></li><li><a href="https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/preliminary-thoughts-on-the-midjourney">Preliminary Thoughts On The Midjourney Scanner</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://gothamist.com/news/artificial-intelligence-firms-are-feasting-on-manhattan-office-space">Artificial intelligence firms are feasting on Manhattan office space</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-american-data-centers-cant-plug-in/">Why American data centers can&apos;t plug in</a></li></ul></div><div><p>RIP</p> <ul><li><a href="https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymo-defeated-new-york-city">Waymo Has Been Defeated by New York City</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-21.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-21.html Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/the-sample-efficiency-black-hole">The data black hole at the center of AI</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/d0vsgl/is_ai_ruining_our_skills_early_results_are">Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in and they&apos;re not good | Lobsters</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618455">Identity verification on Claude | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://fosterelli.co/developers-dont-understand-cors">Developers don&apos;t understand CORS</a></li><li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/CORS">Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614844">Developers don&apos;t understand CORS | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-myth-of-authoritarian-efficiency">The Myth of Authoritarian Efficiency</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-20.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-20.html Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/longreads-open-thread-187/">Longreads + Open Thread</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://sebastiangarren.com/2026/06/17/lending-is-meritorious-and-should-be-praised-how-the-fifth-lateran-council-unlocked-financial-theory/">&quot;Lending is Meritorious and Should be Praised&quot;: How The Fifth Lateran Council Unlocked Financial Theory</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colors-your-screen-cant-show-you/">Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can&apos;t Show You</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606140">Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can&apos;t Show You | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://ianbarber.blog/2026/06/19/llms-are-complicated-now/">LLMs are complicated now</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605355">LLMs are complicated now | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586">How many of the 170k English words do you know? | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/">Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600093">Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-19.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-19.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://agglomerations.eig.org/p/ai-versus-the-china-shock">AI versus the China Shock</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learning">Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549118">Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-18.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-18.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>tl;dr: good idea for those 50+ to get the shingles vaccine; also seems to have ~20% reduction in dementia diagnosis</p> <ul><li><a href="https://erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-on-the-shingles-vaccineagain">Spotlight on the Shingles Vaccine-Again!</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost">Midjourney Medical</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579650">Midjourney Medical | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580209">Local Qwen isn&apos;t a worse Opus, it&apos;s a different tool | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/agent-memory-elasticsearch">How we built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall and zero tenant leaks</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/securing-the-future-of-ai-agents/gdm-ai-control-roadmap.pdf">Google DeepMind AI Control Roadmap</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-17.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-17.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline">AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570948">AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-dialogue-dividend/">The Dialogue Dividend</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569894">The Dialogue Dividend | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Equally / more so applies with AI coding</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/setting-goals/">Setting goals</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://lethain.com/revised-rules-of-engineering-leadership/">Revised rules of engineering leadership.</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-16.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-16.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>It's a hard problem! In my side project I also use a consistent, game-local seeded RNG so runs/simulations/etc are all fully deterministic &amp; repeatable. But leads to challenges like the above.</p> <ul><li><a href="https://tck.mn/blog/correlated-randomness-sts2/">Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552844">Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550779">I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://roman.pt/posts/linkedin-backdoor/">A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546294">A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-15.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-15.html Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/J1Nv0">Forget the World Cup. Culture is becoming more fragmented</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/locked-low-gear-mexicos-struggling-economy">Locked in Low Gear: Mexico&apos;s Struggling Economy</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://stratechery.com/2026/anthropics-safety-superpower/">Anthropic&apos;s Safety Superpower</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539078">Anthropic&apos;s Safety Superpower | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>"Champions of a European AI model should ask themselves if a European effort would be more effective than Meta, which this year will spend more on chips ($125 billion) than Germany spends on defense ($114 billion) and offer salaries of over $100 million to attract the best researchers, and is still failing to catch up. Elon Musk tried and failed to build a good AI model."</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.siliconcontinent.com/p/nineteen-thoughts-on-ai-and-europe">Nineteen thoughts on AI and Europe</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://pgasawa.bearblog.dev/unsafe-ai-or-consolidated-power-ais-false-dichotomy/">Unsafe AI or Consolidated Power: AI&apos;s False Dichotomy</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/albertas-war-on-rats/">How Alberta eradicated rats</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://vladfeinberg.com/2026/05/10/how-to-land-a-job-at-a-frontier-lab.html">How to Land a Frontier Lab Job</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-14.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-14.html Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/the-promise-of-polymath-llms">The Promise of Polymath LLMs</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://massaitc.org/2025/07/02/2025-a2-national-symposium-plenary-talk-michael-kahana-phd-managing-cognitive-impairment-from-early-diagnosis-to-support-care/">2025 a2 National Symposium Plenary Talk: Michael Kahana, PhD - AI-Guided Closed-Loop Stimulation to Enhance Memory</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/@jamesacowling/stepping-stones-not-milestones-e6be0073563f">Stepping Stones not Milestones</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/swiss-voters-reject-proposal-to-cap-population-at-ten-million/91548146">Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529149">Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-13.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-13.html Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>Sarah Paine, more historical background here (vs just modern history)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://youtu.be/OS1NZLgKM2c">Sarah Paine - Why Putin and Xi can&apos;t escape geography</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://x.com/i/status/2065778604110184742">Anton Leicht on the Fable ban</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://tim.blog/2026/06/12/has-ai-already-killed-nonfiction/">Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My Personal Data, and What It Might Mean for the Future</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://bycig.substack.com/p/the-economics-behind-the-spurs">The economics behind the Spurs.</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Codex $100 is plenty for even dedicated hobbyist coding IME, but if you're doing a startup I would get double $200 subs (OpenAI + Anthropic) and go from there. Paying API rates for me at work is thousands per month spend.</p> <ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518969">AI coding at home without going broke | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/u0qdF">How a Tiny British Island Fell Into an International Gambling Scandal</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://gwern.net/guardian-angel">Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security</a></li></ul></div><div><p>OpenRouter trying to standardize the common practice of blending expensive &amp; cheap models. Also interesting is the "Preventing Models From Cheating" section, b/c it is a bit of tooling/tech to be able to run evals on models that can access eval-related data/solutions through general search (web, code search, or internal company search tools)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/fusion-beats-frontier/">Surpassing Frontier Performance with Fusion</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://tonsky.me/blog/every-frame-perfect/">Every Frame Perfect</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516251">Every Frame Perfect | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.fo/BIOej">Police officer under criminal investigation over alleged use of AI</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520807">Police officer investigated for using AI to &apos;create evidence&apos; in multiple cases | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-12.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-12.html Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/manufacturing-requirements-are-killing">Manufacturing requirements are killing cell and gene therapy</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/YEwiT">Urban pollution in wealthy world still adding to heart damage, study finds</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/writing/">Writing</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509143">MMORPG world of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5 | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-11.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-11.html Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464140">What it feels like to work with Mythos | Hacker News</a></li><li><a href="https://www.endorlabs.com/learn/claude-fable-5-mythos-grade-hype">Claude Fable 5: Mythos-grade hype, record cheating, and a few hall-of-fame entries</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492210">Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Roughly endorse the first couple sections; a prior manager I had also recommended having 20% slack [at work] - which can be used for reading, thinking, etc; and when it’s crunch time can ofc allocate that as needed</p> <p>Lately I’ve been using my “20% time” at work to be putting out one side project or another, typically done by a Claude or two in the background of my main work. Not sure on the implications of that for having real slack time to think/process/etc in the background</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.seangoedecke.com/doing-nothing-at-work/">Doing nothing at work</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442880">Doing nothing at work | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.janestreet.com/formal-methods-at-jane-street-index/">Formal methods and the future of programming</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-10.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-10.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>Some of this philosophy is why my personal website is a simple static site (but ofc I can embed JS plugins so not entirely)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/">How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight</a></li><li><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/esvncd/how_building_html_first_site_doubled_our">How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight | Lobsters</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475483">How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/">Landmark German ruling declares Google&apos;s AI Overviews are Google&apos;s own words and makes it liable for false answers</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470248">Landmark German ruling declares Google&apos;s AI Overviews are Google&apos;s own words and makes it liable for false answers | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>p classic prompt injection</p> <ul><li><a href="https://blue41.com/blog/how-we-helped-bunq-secure-their-financial-ai-assistant/">How we helped Bunq secure their financial AI assistant</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Jailbreaking LLM auto analysis by adding nuclear &amp; bio weapons text, so it triggers LLM safety refusals</p> <ul><li><a href="https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-miasma-and-hades-worms-target-bioinformatics-and-mcp-developers-via-malicious">Mini Shai-Hulud, Miasma, and Hades Worms Target Bioinformatics and MCP Developers via Malicious PyPI Wheels</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-09.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-09.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/test_case_reducers_are_underappreciated_debugging_tools.html">Test-case Reducers Are Underappreciated Debugging Tools</a></li><li><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/zwn4xe/test_case_reducers_are_underappreciated">Test-case Reducers Are Underappreciated Debugging Tools | Lobsters</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythos">What it feels like to work with Mythos</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464140">What it feels like to work with Mythos | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-08.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-08.html Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://srajagopalan.substack.com/p/a-for-effort-how-ai-upends-copyright">A for Effort: How AI Upends Copyright Law</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://artificialauthority.ai/p/the-lump-of-law-fallacy">The Lump of Law Fallacy</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.troyhunt.com/1000-data-breaches-later-the-disclosure-lag-is-worse-than-ever/">1,000 Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag is Worse Than Ever</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440952">1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437290">Making peace with your unlived dreams | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/its-maturity-transformation-all-the-way-down/">It&apos;s Maturity Transformation All the Way Down</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-06.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-06.html Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/a-compute-tax-is-a-really-dumb-idea">A compute tax is a REALLY dumb idea</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-long-does-it-take-to-plan-a-bridge">How Long Does It Take to Plan a Bridge?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/the-world-is-bigger-than-you-can">The world is bigger than you can imagine</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-05.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-05.html Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement">When AI builds itself</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://claude.com/blog/how-anthropic-enables-self-service-data-analytics-with-claude">How Anthropic enables self-service data analytics with Claude</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://writing.antonleicht.me/p/betting-on-humans">Betting On Humans</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/06/sentences-to-ponder-139.html">Sentences to ponder</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://davidoks.blog/p/why-china-got-rich-and-india-didnt">Why China got rich and India didn&apos;t</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-02.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-02.html Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.ggd.world/p/how-does-female-emancipation-affect">How does Female Emancipation affect GDP?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.ph/DqPNZ">Americans don&apos;t know how to fight AI. So they&apos;re fighting data centers.</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.washi.dev/posts/custom-attributes-and-why-they-suck/">Why Custom Attributes in .NET give me Nightmares</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343435">Why Custom Attributes in .NET Give Me Nightmares | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://research.perplexity.ai/articles/rethinking-search-as-code-generation">Rethinking Search as Code Generation</a></li><li>Related: <a href="https://davistreybig.substack.com/p/how-agents-use-systems-differently">How Agents Use Systems Differently</a> (<a href="https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-14.html">previously shared</a>)</li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/samurai-city/">Samurai city</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://coveillance.org/a-walking-tour-of-surveillance-infrastructure-in-seattle/">A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369980">A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020) | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.platformer.news/boris-cherny-interview-ai-jobs/">Claude Code&apos;s creator on the end of the software engineer</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-01.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/06-01.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.0xsid.com/blog/meta-account-takeover-fiasco">The newest Instagram &quot;exploit&quot; is the goofiest I&apos;ve seen</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358646">Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/using-ai-for-writing-like-a-responsible-adult/">Using AI for Writing like a Responsible Adult</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://30fps.net/pages/255-vs-256-division/">Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-31.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-31.html Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>Interesting interview with a well known name about the hedge fund industry, starting with an introductory 201-level explanation of what a quant is, what hedge funds do, etc. Recommended by a Citadel analyst</p> <ul><li><a href="https://youtu.be/yxqTervPZe8?si=c7nR_DGyxTKdUsPG">Giuseppe Paleologo - Multi-Manager Hedge Funds &amp; Thinking Deeply About Simple Things (S7E11)</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/meta-officially-launches-instagram-facebook-and-whatsapp-subscriptions-with-more-to-come-including-ai-plans/">Meta officially launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347354">Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.lauramichet.com/what-its-like-to-have-the-machine-that-keeps-you-alive-die-while-youre-on-vacation/">What it&apos;s like to have the machine that keeps you alive die while you&apos;re on vacation</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313427">Having your insulin pump die while you&apos;re on vacation | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-30.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-30.html Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/05/80000-hours-the-book.html">80,000 Hours: The Book</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.bain.com/insights/synthetic-customers-earn-their-stripes/">Synthetic Customers Earn Their Stripes</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://listomania.substack.com/p/soft-serve-and-soft-power">Soft Serve and Soft Power</a></li><li><a href="https://listomania.substack.com/p/celtuce-and-the-city-foreign-chains">Celtuce and the City: Foreign Chains</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338660">OpenRouter raises $113M Series B | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-29.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-29.html Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/05/29/fooling-around-with-encrypted-reasoning-blobs/">Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/where-are-the-economies-of-scale">Where Are the Economies of Scale in Homebuilding?</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-28.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-28.html Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>Quality is the real challenge, not orchestration technical capability IMO</p> <ul><li><a href="https://claude.com/blog/introducing-dynamic-workflows-in-claude-code">Introducing dynamic workflows in Claude Code</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311705">Introducing dynamic workflows in Claude Code | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-27.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-27.html Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/">I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296794">I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/review-recession-the-real-reasons-economies-shrink-and-what-to-do-about-it/">Review: Recession, The Real Reasons Economies Shrink and What to Do About It</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-26.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-26.html Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/the-rocketship/">The RocketshipSpaceX is finally going public</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/spain-blocks-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-over-lack-gambling-licences-2026-05-26/">Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licences</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279316">Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://dynomight.net/crc-rates/">Is &quot;colorectal cancer&quot; rising in &quot;young people&quot;?</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281539">Is &quot;colorectal cancer&quot; rising in &quot;young people&quot;? | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.faangfire.com/p/my-direct-indexing-experience-year">My Direct Indexing Experience (Year 2)</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-25.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-25.html Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MurmAcAQNtg">Wendougee: The Most Interesting Manufacturer in China?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://notcompeting.substack.com/p/kids-and-china-in-central-asia">Kids and China in Central Asia</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-24.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-24.html Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>People are using this to turn 2d AI art to 3D to then use in game dev / animations. Both directly (3D game etc) and indirectly (3D model, rotated and posed in different ways to make a consistent 2D spritesheet, which is otherwise hard / requires LoRA etc)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.tripo3d.ai/">Tripo | Easy 2D to 3D: Free AI 3D Models From Images or Texts</a></li></ul></div><div><p>His next finished series</p> <ul><li><a href="https://acoup.blog/2026/05/22/collections-raising-carthaginian-armies-part-v-how-a-carthaginian-army-fights/">Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part V: How a Carthaginian Army Fights</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256953">DeepSeek Reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-23.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-23.html Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html">Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr From First Principles</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246889">Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr From First Principles | Hacker News</a></li><li>Related: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmkSf5IS-zw">How GPT, Claude, and Gemini are actually trained and served - Reiner Pope</a></li><li>Flashcards for the above: <a href="https://flashcards.dwarkesh.com/">Dwarkesh Podcast Flashcards</a></li><li>Also related: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=139UPjoq7Kw">Building Machine Learning Systems for a Trillion Trillion Floating Point Operations</a></li></ul></div><div><p>By Knausgaard</p> <ul><li><a href="https://granta.com/a-strange-birds-cry/">A Strange Bird&apos;s Cry</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/what-do-unions-do">What Do Unions Do?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2026/05/the-appreciation-constituency-land-credit-and-the-politics-of-protected-assets/">The Appreciation Constituency: Land, Credit, and the Politics of Protected Assets</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://x.com/i/status/2058231818076242297">Built my own thematic coding engine for @deuteroai</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-22.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-22.html Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://modelrift.com/blog/openscad-llm-benchmark/">OpenSCAD LLM Benchmark: Building the Pantheon</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234090">OpenSCAD LLM Benchmark: Building the Pantheon | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Shreya is always excellent</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.sh-reya.com/blog/ai-qual-analysis/">Exploring Agent-Assisted Qualitative Analysis</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Pretty classic, it's why I got my new PC early last year (also pre-tariffs) and new phones earlier this year</p> <p>In general suggest getting your long-lived consumer hardware now, b/c it will prob take 1-2y (or more) before prices drop meaningfully. And rn many manufacturers are still semi-subsidizing/not pricing in cost increases just yet due to manufacturing &amp; stocking timelines (e.g. recent Switch price increases)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone">AI is killing the cheap smartphone</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229319">AI is killing the cheap smartphone | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>comments better than article</p> <ul><li><a href="https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many">Why Japanese companies do so many different things</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237163">Why Japanese companies do so many different things | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update">Project Glasswing: An initial update</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240419">Project Glasswing: An initial update | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-21.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-21.html Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>Related: residential proxy abuse makes scraper traffic harder to block.</p> <ul><li><a href="https://weirdgloop.org/blog/clankers">Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis</a></li><li><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/k21pdb/aggressive_ai_scrapers_are_making_it">Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis | Lobsters</a></li><li><a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-network">No Place Like Home Network: Disrupting the World&apos;s Largest Residential Proxy Network</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/">New Gemini-powered ad formats coming to Google Search</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220105">New Gemini-powered ad formats coming to Google Search | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/cheap-drugs-arent-enough-fixing-opioid">India&apos;s Treatable Crisis: Why 7 Million Opioid Patients Go Without Care</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-industry-news/spotify-will-start-reserving-concert-tickets-for-superfans-1236603106/">Spotify Will Start Reserving Concert Tickets for Superfans</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225357">Spotify Will Start Reserving Concert Tickets for Superfans | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/waymo-pauses-atlanta-service-as-its-robotaxis-keep-driving-into-floods/">Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225426">Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Retraglutide is achieving bariatric-surgery-scale results</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/eli-lilly-weight-loss-drug-retatrutide-clears-obesity-trial.html">Eli Lilly says new weight loss drug clears obesity trial</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-20.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-20.html Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/tajikistans-remittances-are-worth-nearly-half-the-countrys-gdp">Tajikistan&apos;s remittances are worth nearly half the country&apos;s GDP</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/">An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-19.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-19.html Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188183">The last six months in LLMs in five minutes | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/#frontier-intelligence">Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196570">Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa-admin-leaked-aws-govcloud-keys-on-github/">CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190454">CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-philanthropy">The Third Wave of American Philanthropy</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/there-should-be-general-managers">There Should Be General Managers</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-18.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-18.html Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://lalitm.com/post/dont-answer-the-first-question/">Don&apos;t answer the first question</a></li><li><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/dt92ad/don_t_answer_first_question">Don&apos;t answer the first question | Lobsters</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/what-can-you-learn-from-a-deterministically-chaotic-market-simulation/">What Can You Learn From a Deterministically Chaotic Market Simulation?</a></li></ul></div><div><p>"Apparently, in the era of AI, there are a lot of delusional old people out there! They can't tell fact from fiction, but in many cases have unwarranted confidence in their ability to do so. This seems like a very bad combination, and indicates that the elderly will be falling for a lot of scams over the next few decades, in the same way they fall for non-AI internet and telemarketing scams."</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.richardhanania.com/p/can-ai-replace-me-already">Can AI Replace Me Already?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-tested-one-of-the-medias-favorite">We tested one of the media&apos;s favorite economic theories</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-17.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-17.html Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/">OpenAI and Malta partner to bring ChatGPT Plus to all citizens</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/ytw2m">Everlane Is Selling Out to Shein</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-16.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-16.html Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/ztNDS">Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once</a></li></ul></div><div><p>The specific exhaustion of being a mother.</p> <ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/fD61k">Why Am I So Tired?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.seangoedecke.com/steering-vectors/">DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160807">DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-15.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-15.html Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141234">Claude for Legal | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>tl;dr: Restaurant patrons in a recent study tipped their servers up to about 1 percentage point less on Saturdays and Sundays.</p> <ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/aDZSP">Why Do People Tip Less on the Weekends?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/how-the-mfa-swallowed-literature">How the MFA swallowed literature</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://chreke.com/posts/sql-incorrect-by-construction">SQL: Incorrect by Construction</a></li><li><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/wehmq6/sql_incorrect_by_construction">SQL: Incorrect by Construction | Lobsters</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-14.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-14.html Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://x.com/i/status/2054866460900536689">Why aren&apos;t oil prices higher?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://davistreybig.substack.com/p/how-agents-use-systems-differently">How Agents Use Systems Differently</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Some inside baseball<br /> "Let me paint two scenarios. In one, people are fine with AI-generated slop despite their protests, the platforms shrug, and feeds become a slop war. In the otherwhich I think is more likely people hit a threshold where the internet enshittifies to the point of being unusable and they retreat into private spaces with trusted voices.</p> <p>If that happens, parasocial relationships with creators will hit warp speed. People will seek out the creators, influencers, and voices they really want to hear from by going to them directly. And their real conversations move further underground into group chats, WhatsApp groups, Instagram DMs, Snapchat, Discord servers."</p> <p>I also agree the second scenario is more likely - see also Imas's articles on 'what is scarce', relational economy, etc</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/p/heres-what-i-told-the-dnc-autopsy-biden-harris-2024-lessons-democrats-2028">Here&apos;s What I Told the DNC Autopsy</a></li><li><a href="https://aleximas.substack.com/p/what-will-be-scarce">What will be scarce?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://jasmi.news/p/party-in-the-permanent-underclass">Notes on AI, Labor, and China</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-13.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-13.html Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/oznirn/redis_cost_ambition">Redis and the Cost of Ambition | Lobsters</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120629">I moved my digital stack to Europe | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/spacex-files-for-55-billion-semiconductor-fab-in-rural-texas">SpaceX files for $55 billion semiconductor fab in rural Texas for Musk&apos;s Terafab - total chipmaking fab investment could reach $119 billion</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://openai.com/index/new-ways-to-buy-chatgpt-ads/">New ways to buy ChatGPT ads</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/explore-web-generative-ai-search/">5 new ways to explore the web with generative AI in Search</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Related: Amazon delivered more parcels in 2025 than the Big 3 domestically in the US.</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-supply-chain-services-for-business">Amazon launches Supply Chain Services for businesses of all sizes</a></li><li><a href="https://shipmatrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/SMx-Press-Release-on-2025-Parcel-Market-3.16.2026.pdf">Amazon delivered more parcels in 2025 than the Big 3</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/what-drives-health-spending-in-the-u-s-compared-to-other-countries/">What drives health spending in the U.S. compared to other countries?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://freesystems.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-jobless-prosperity">The Politics of Jobless Prosperity</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-12.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-12.html Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://matklad.github.io/2026/05/12/software-architecture.html">Learning Software Architecture</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106024">Learning Software Architecture | Hacker News</a></li><li><a href="https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/reflections-on-a-decade-of-coding/">Reflections on a decade of coding</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100433">If AI writes your code, why use Python? | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://martin.sh/i-let-ai-build-a-tool-to-help-me-figure-out-what-was-waking-me-up-at-night/">I Let AI Build a Tool to Help Me Figure Out What Was Waking Me Up at Night</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100662">I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://cayimby.org/blog/the-legal-trap-thats-making-california-condos-unaffordable-and-its-not-what-you-think/">The Legal Trap That&apos;s Making California Condos Unaffordable-And It&apos;s Not What You Think</a></li><li><a href="https://www.therebuild.pub/p/a-starter-home-is-whatever-we-want">A Starter Home is Whatever We Want it to Be</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/articles/2026/membership-101.html https://ggulati.com/articles/2026/membership-101.html Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT In my hot new AI startup, I'm charging $20 a month for an AI that automatically sends you photos of your pet whenever your Ring camera spots them. https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-11.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-11.html Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/why-does-resource-extraction-produce-such-concentrated-wealth/">Why does Resource Extraction Produce Such Concentrated Wealth?</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-10.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-10.html Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073680">Bun&apos;s experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047930">Idempotency is easy until the second request is different | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/health/andes-strain-hantavirus-explained">What doctors know about how the Andes hantavirus spreads</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Interesting wrt incremental derisking (pop ups, cooking show, then restaurant). Also Nishaan runs off social media (TikTok, IG) - tourists visiting NYC (including esp muslims) go specially to it - can see that mentioned frequently on reviews</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/10/34-year-old-product-manager-opened-a-restaurant-after-being-laid-off-it-brings-in-up-to-140000-a-month.html">34-year-old product manager opened a restaurant after being laid off - it brings in up to $140,000 a month</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/comments/1t8on4o/just_for_discussion_what_does_it_cost_to_open_up/?sort=confidence">Just for discussion: what does it cost to open up a small coffee shop in this city?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.opendata.dev/blog/faster-timeseries-aggregations">Faster Timeseries Aggregations</a></li><li><a href="https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1816-teller.pdf">Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-09.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-09.html Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://x.com/i/status/2053117812227596653">In 2017, a Chinese company called GoGoChicken began sticking ankle bracelets onto all of their newly-hatched chickens to track their locations (via GPS), daily steps, the local air quality, and more.</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://x.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935">Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://thariqs.github.io/html-effectiveness/">The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML — examples</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071262">A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://openai.com/index/delivering-low-latency-voice-ai-at-scale/">How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013919">How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale | Hacker News</a></li><li><a href="https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/">OpenAI</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051951">OpenAI’s WebRTC problem | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-08.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-08.html Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://apnews.com/article/poland-economy-growth-g20-gdp-26fe06e120398410f8d773ba5661e7aa">Poland is now among the world&apos;s 20 largest economies. How it happened</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062117">Poland is now among the 20 largest economies | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/you-cant-redistribute-your-way-out">You can&apos;t redistribute your way out of a housing shortage</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.ggd.world/p/patriarchal-rents">Patriarchal Rents</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-07.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-07.html Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/you-are-not-a-horse">You are not a horse</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-impact/">AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields — Google DeepMind</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050278">AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/natural-language-autoencoders">Natural Language Autoencoders</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052537">Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude&apos;s Thoughts into Text | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-06.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-06.html Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/">Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-05.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/05-05.html Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>related to the main discussion here</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/dead-airlines/">Dead Airlines</a></li><li><a href="https://davidoks.blog/p/why-airlines-are-always-going-bankrupt">Why airlines are always going bankrupt</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/28/openai-reportedly-missed-revenue-targets-shares-of-oracle-and-these-chip-stocks-are-falling.html">OpenAI reportedly missed revenue targets. 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Hundreds of Papers At Risk of Retraction</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/">Bugs Rust Won&apos;t Catch | corrode Rust Consulting</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943499">Bugs Rust won&apos;t catch | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-28.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-28.html Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://dan.bjorkegren.com/blog/2026/04/the-intelligence-is-plenty-but-the-workers-are-few/">The intelligence is plenty but the workers are few</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/illegal-vs-unwanted-states/">Illegal vs Unwanted States</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://lethain.com/early-late-stage-hypergrowth/">Early and late-stage hypergrowth.</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://lethain.com/agents-as-scaffolding/">Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks.</a></li></ul></div><div><p>"With large gains in life expectancy, the population share of disability due to cognitive decline and dementia has substantially increased. Many older adults in the United States leave the workforce well before age 65. Correlational evidence suggests that leaving the workforce before retirement age could accelerate the pace of cognitive decline. We offer causal evidence, using HRS data for the United States, exploiting plausibly exogenous shifts in labor demand in local labor markets as a Bartik instrument for employment variation across these markets. We find substantial declines over time in cognitive scores stemming from negative labor demand shocks. These findings are concentrated among men aged 51 to 64, whose employment decisions and outcomes may be more sensitive to local labor market conditions than are these decisions or outcomes for women or for older men. Our evidence extends past work focusing narrowly on the retirement age window and provides further support to the notion that working to older ages may delay age-related cognitive decline."</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w35117">Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Big step for OpenAI to compete for corporate contracts (wrt regulations, easier procurement, etc)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://openai.com/index/openai-on-aws/">OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents come to AWS</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-openai-ceo-sam-altman-and-aws-ceo-matt-garman-about-bedrock-managed-agents/">An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-27.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-27.html Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://sftw.substack.com/p/the-case-of-missing-american-mushrooms">The case of missing American mushrooms</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://indevelopmentmag.com/exporters-without-borders-why-you-should-start-a-company-instead-of-working-in-aid/">Exporters Without Borders: Why You Should Start a Company Instead of Working in Aid – In Development</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/what-ive-been-thinking-april-27">What I&apos;ve been thinking about this weekend - More open questions, intelligence vs power, the problem of verification in science, the parallel discovery of Darwinism</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/agent-know-thyself-and-bid-accordingly">Agent, Know Thyself! (and bid accordingly)</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920787">Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/28/talkie/">Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-26.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-26.html Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://theterminalist.substack.com/p/the-distribution-fallacy-moats-mechanisms">The Distribution Fallacy — Moats, Mechanisms, and Misreads</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-25.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-25.html Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem/">Even experts are surprised by AI’s latest ‘vibe-mathing’ advance</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-24.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-24.html Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/kim-bowes/">Kim Bowes on the Economic Lives of Rome</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://investor.regeneron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/otarmenitm-lunsotogene-parvec-cwha-approved-fda-first-and-only">Otarmeni (lunsotogene parvec-cwha) Approved by FDA as First and Only Gene Therapy for Genetic Hearing Loss; Regeneron to Provide Otarmeni for Free in the U.S.</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://raoulruparel.substack.com/p/ai-in-an-open-economy-reshaping-terms">AI in an open economy: reshaping terms of trade &amp; comparative advantage [Part 1]</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.ph/u274V">Google Plans to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/features/project-deal">Project Deal: our Claude-run marketplace experiment | Anthropic</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-23.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-23.html Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.anduril.com/news/yfq-44a-integrates-with-the-experimental-operations-unit">YFQ-44A Integrates with the Experimental Operations Unit | Anduril</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Prediction markets in everything</p> <ul><li><a href="https://abcnews.com/US/doj-arrests-soldier-made-400000-betting-maduros-removal/story?id=132325426">DOJ arrests soldier who made $400,000 betting on Maduro&apos;s removal</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.derekthompson.org/p/if-americas-so-rich-howd-it-get-so">If America&apos;s So Rich, How&apos;d It Get So Sad?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/will-price-transparency-cure-americas">Will Price Transparency Cure America&apos;s High Healthcare Costs?</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-22.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-22.html Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/articles/exclusive-meta-start-capturing-employee-162745587.html">Exclusive-Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://digiday.com/marketing/openai-has-quietly-launched-its-ads-manager-as-it-races-to-build-out-its-ads-business/">OpenAI has quietly launched its ads manager as it races to build out its ads business</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/UBX2g">China shock 2.0: the flood of high-tech goods that will change the world</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/TbT59">Chinas Control Over Tech Is Threatening Indias Manufacturing Dreams</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/china-s-agentic-ai-controversy">China’s Agentic AI Controversy</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.chinatalk.media/p/chinas-ai-companies-are-going-closed">China’s AI Companies Are Going Closed Source</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-many-chips-does-china-have">How Much Compute Does China Have?</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-19.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-19.html Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/">Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-communist-reforms-nearly-always-failed/">Why Communist reforms nearly always failed - Works in Progress Magazine</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/escaping-the-ogallala-trap/">Escaping the Ogallala trap - Works in Progress Magazine</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/04/17/1169844428/this-floating-ocean-garbage-is-home-to-a-surprising-amount-of-life-from-the-coas">This floating ocean garbage is home to a surprising amount of life from the coasts</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-australia-really-stopped-the-boats/">How Australia really stopped the boats - Works in Progress Magazine</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Lot of people are working on how to use LLMs effectivey in writing prose (as opposed to code) - see Gwern, romance mass production novelists, this article, etc. Mostly around the harness layer, tho they (except for Gwern) might not phrase it that way</p> <p>Prob low hanging fruit in cross applying learnings &amp; techniques from coding harnesses to prose</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.danvillesanramon.com/guest-opinion/2026/04/08/guest-opinion-what-we-learned-after-producing-play-written-by-ai/">Guest Opinion: What we learned after producing play written by AI</a></li></ul></div><div><p>[11:50 PM, 4/20/2026] Veer</p> <ul><li><a href="https://religionandbusiness.substack.com/p/the-richest-places-on-earth">The Richest Place(s) on Earth</a></li><li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/john-ternus-become-apple-ceo-tim-cook-become-executive-chairman-2026-04-20/">Apple turns to hardware veteran Ternus as CEO to succeed Cook in AI age</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-18.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-18.html Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/ai-is-already-10x-ing-academic-research">AI is already 10x-ing academic research. How do we get to 100x?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://aleximas.substack.com/p/what-will-be-scarce">What will be scarce?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs">Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806725">Claude Design | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-17.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-17.html Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://indevelopmentmag.com/money-for-nothing-the-roles-of-evidence-in-givedirectlys-journey-to-1-billion-delivered/">Money for nothing: the roles of evidence in GiveDirectly’s journey to $1 billion delivered – In Development</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Good advice</p> <ul><li><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1snuc93/the_same_marketing_strategy_that_got_me_40000/?sort=confidence">The same marketing strategy that got me 40,000 sales on my first game is failing for my second game.</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-16.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-16.html Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.ggd.world/p/when-cities-outrun-the-state">When Cities Outrun the State</a></li></ul></div><div><p>original paper (above article seems LLM generated)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://scienceblog.com/wildscience/2025/11/19/sperm-whales-may-be-speaking-in-vowels-too/">Sperm Whales May Be Speaking In Vowels Too</a></li><li><a href="https://direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/doi/10.1162/OPMI.a.252/133906/Vowel-and-Diphthong-Like-Spectral-Patterns-in">Vowel- and Diphthong-Like Spectral Patterns in Sperm Whale Codas</a></li><li><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sperm-whales-may-make-their-own-vowel-sounds-similar-to-human-language/">Sperm whales may make their own vowel sounds, similar to human language</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.oxfordenergy.org/publications/energy-quantamentals-the-oil-crisis-in-the-eyes-of-a-financial-trader/">Energy Quantamentals: The Oil Crisis in the Eyes of a Financial Trader - Oxford Institute for Energy Studies</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://bourseandbazaar.substack.com/p/irans-capital-markets-shaken-after">Iran&apos;s Capital Markets Shaken After Two Wars</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/16/man-pleads-guilty-false-statements-shut-down-london-nightclub-heaven">Man used AI to make false statements to shut down London nightclub, police say</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-15.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-15.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>"Quince’s Best-Kept Secret Isn’t Its Cheap Cashmere and Couches"</p> <ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/npULz">Quinces Best-Kept Secret Isnt Its Cheap Cashmere and Couches</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-13.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-13.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.construction-physics.com/p/helium-is-hard-to-replace">Helium Is Hard to Replace</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/the-odd-disappearance-of-the-business">The odd disappearance of the business cycle</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-11.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-11.html Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-rival-west-ai-chips-2025-12-17/">Exclusive: How China built its Manhattan Project to rival the West in AI chips</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://thatvastvariety.substack.com/p/top-performers-are-pathologically">Top Performers are Pathologically Ambitious</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://cayimby.org/blog/the-legal-trap-thats-making-california-condos-unaffordable-and-its-not-what-you-think/">The Legal Trap That&apos;s Making California Condos Unaffordable</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-10.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-10.html Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/paisley">Paisley</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://technologik.substack.com/p/musings-on-recursive-self-improvement">Musings on Recursive Self-Improvement</a></li></ul></div><div><p>also this; about halfway through and it’s interesting wrt what are the specific bottlenecks for scaling AI</p> <p>Stratechery also cites him (Dylan Patel, SemiAnalysis):<br /> Also aligns with this discussion</p> <ul><li><a href="https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/google-gemini-eats-the-world-gemini">Google Gemini Eats The World – Gemini Smashes GPT-4 By 5X, The GPU-Poors</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-09.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-09.html Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://theamericanscholar.org/the-importance-of-being-idle/">The Importance of Being Idle - The American Scholar</a></li></ul></div><div><p>"5. A big win from using AI agents is tackling stuff that you wouldn’t have before. A senior engineer at 37signals ran a “P1 optimization” project to improve the fastest 1% of requests. They optimized the P1 from being at 4 milliseconds, to under half a millisecond. This is the sort of work that wouldn’t have been considered previously!”</p> <p>100%, I usually have an “eng excellence” task going in the background while I focus on feature work. Lets me continuously try out new ideas, deliver improvements, clean up code, etc</p> <ul><li><a href="https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/dhhs-new-way-of-writing-code">DHH’s new way of writing code</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Inference has ties to the Harness engineering as well - can have clever tricks like fine-tune the LLM to plan tool calls in parallel, which ofc relies on your harness supporting that capability<br /> (that said I’m a little tired of all the Foo Engineering catchphrases, we can just call it platform &amp; infra eng with a focus on LLMs lol)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/what-is-inference-engineering">What is inference engineering? Deepdive</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-08.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-08.html Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>“GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks”</p> <ul><li><a href="https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.1">GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677853">GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap/">Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675625">Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://nehanarula.org/2026/04/03/bitcoin-and-quantum-computing.html">Neha&apos;s Writings</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681274">Bitcoin and quantum computing | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://gizmodo.com/waymo-has-stopped-testing-its-robotaxis-in-new-york-city-and-no-one-knows-what-happens-next-2000743053">Waymo Has Stopped Testing Its Robotaxis in New York City and No One Knows What Happens Next</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-roadmap/">Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675625">Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://nehanarula.org/2026/04/03/bitcoin-and-quantum-computing.html">Neha&apos;s Writings</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681274">Bitcoin and quantum computing | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://gizmodo.com/waymo-has-stopped-testing-its-robotaxis-in-new-york-city-and-no-one-knows-what-happens-next-2000743053">Waymo Has Stopped Testing Its Robotaxis in New York City and No One Knows What Happens Next</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/the-great-gpu-shortage-rental-capacity">The Great GPU Shortage – Rental Capacity – Launching our H100 1 Year Rental Price Index</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-msl/">Introducing Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692043">Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>We’ll get there tho, you can see e.g. Anthropic is working on the building blocks with subagents + coordination mechanisms, plan mode, Claude Code for the Web (containerized execution) - I would expect within 3 - 6m at most we’ll see full workflow / team orchestration as a product release from them</p> <p>Ditto for Codex</p> <p>MVP version might not be there tho even with strong eng teams, might need another model bump or two, or more “harness engineering” and thoughtful human in the loop. Maybe end of this year / early next Tough to really say given exponentials</p> <p>Here you go</p> <ul><li><a href="https://claude.com/blog/claude-managed-agents">Claude Managed Agents: get to production 10x faster | Claude</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-07.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-07.html Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://sam-burns.com/posts/concrete-laptop-stand/">Concrete Laptop Stand</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673360">Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024) | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://xd009642.github.io/2026/04/01/My-Experience-as-a-Rice-Farmer.html">My Experience As A Rice Farmer</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614528">My Experience as a Rice Farmer | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/31/ml-applications/meta-adaptive-ranking-model-bending-the-inference-scaling-curve-to-serve-llm-scale-models-for-ads/">Meta Adaptive Ranking Model: Bending the Inference Scaling Curve to Serve LLM-Scale Models for Ads</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/youtube-worlds-largest-media-company-2025-tops-disney-1236525130/">YouTube Now Worlds Largest Media Company, Topping Disney</a></li></ul></div><div><p>see also: today’s Stratechery</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-compute">Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation compute</a></li></ul></div><div><p>also this; about halfway through and it’s interesting wrt what are the specific bottlenecks for scaling AI</p> <p>Stratechery also cites him (Dylan Patel, SemiAnalysis)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDG_Hx3BSUE">Dylan Patel The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI compute</a></li><li><a href="https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/google-gemini-eats-the-world-gemini">Google Gemini Eats The World – Gemini Smashes GPT-4 By 5X, The GPU-Poors</a></li></ul></div><div><p>“Amazon in talks to buy $9bn satellite group Globalstar in bid to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink”</p> <ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/EsigC">Amazon in talks to buy $9bn satellite group Globalstar in bid to rival Elon Musks Starlink</a></li></ul></div><div><p>“OpenAI’s ChatGPT App Store Took Aim at Apple, But Results Lag So Far”</p> <ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/Cqlqt">OpenAIs ChatGPT App Store Took Aim at Apple, But Results Lag So Far</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Mix of marketing hype and interesting claims; note that a GPT model version announcement is rumored later this week</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing">Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679121">Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-06.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-06.html Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://belief.horse/notes/what-being-ripped-off-taught-me/">What Being Ripped Off for $35k Taught Me | Belief Horse</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660286">What being ripped off taught me | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><p>“Employers are using your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you’ll accept”</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept-c2b968fb">Employers are using your personal data to figure out the lowest salary youll accept</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655466">Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you&apos;ll accept | Hacker News</a></li><li><a href="https://openai.com/index/industrial-policy-for-the-intelligence-age/">Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-05.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-05.html Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.ggd.world/p/whats-the-most-under-rated-engine">What&apos;s the Most Under-Rated Engine of Gender Equality?</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-04.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-04.html Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2008/08/09/making-reflection-fly-and-exploring-delegates/">Making reflection fly and exploring delegates</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/a-brief-history-of-instant-coffee/">A brief history of instant coffee - Works in Progress Magazine</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Interestingly, it explains why my parents like Nescafe Gold more &amp; why it costs more than the average instant coffee - it's made with freeze drying process rather than the cheaper conventional spray drying (around 2x the cost)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/a-brief-history-of-instant-coffee/">A brief history of instant coffee - Works in Progress Magazine</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Good links</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.thediff.co/archive/longreads-open-thread-176/">Longreads + Open Thread</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://scholarstage.substack.com/p/china-and-the-future-of-science">China and the Future of Science</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-03.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-03.html Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/gavin-newsom-california-fraud">Gavin Newsom’s Empire of Fraud</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.mantic.com/p/a-new-kind-of-forecasting-tournament">A new kind of forecasting tournament</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-02.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-02.html Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://kathmandupost.com/money/2026/03/27/inside-nepal-s-fake-rescue-racket">Inside Nepal’s fake rescue racket</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613078">Inside Nepal&apos;s Fake Rescue Racket | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://i0exception.substack.com/p/reflections-on-technical-tradeoffs">Reflections on Technical Tradeoffs</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/2/lennys-podcast/">Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny’s Podcast</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/04/02/secure_llms.html">My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-01.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/04-01.html Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/p/2026-04-01-how-federal-spending-is-distributed-by-age-group-in-fy2025/">How Federal Spending is Distributed by Age | Penn Wharton Budget Model</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-31.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-31.html Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.estragon.news/mr-chatterbox-or-the-modern-prometheus/">Mr. Chatterbox, or, The Modern Prometheus</a></li></ul></div><div><p>He used oh-my-codex for orchestration</p> <ul><li><a href="https://github.com/instructkr/clawd-code">GitHub - ultraworkers/claw-code: The repo is finally unlocked. enjoy the party! The fastest repo in history to surpass 100K stars ⭐. Join Discord: https://discord.gg/5TUQKqFWd Built in Rust using oh-my-codex.</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-codex">GitHub - Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-codex: OmX - Oh My codeX: Your codex is not alone. Add hooks, agent teams, HUDs, and so much more.</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://about.roblox.com/newsroom/2026/02/accelerating-creation-powered-roblox-cube-foundation-model">Accelerating Creation, Powered by Roblox’s Cube Foundation Model | Roblox</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.apollo.com/insights-news/insights/2026/03/balance-sheet-behind-the-ai-revolution">The Balance Sheet Behind the AI Revolution</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-30.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-30.html Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><p>“WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate”</p> <ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/BNsiG">WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/do-developing-countries-still-need">Do Developing Countries Still Need to Industrialize?</a></li></ul></div><div><p>“China cracks down on ‘bone ash’ burials in empty apartments”</p> <ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/lN8En">China cracks down on bone ash burials in empty apartments</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03/30/vulnerability-research-is-cooked/">Vulnerability Research Is Cooked — Quarrelsome</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-29.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-29.html Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/harness-design-long-running-apps">Harness design for long-running application development</a></li></ul></div><div><p>example usage</p> <ul><li><a href="https://github.com/Farama-Foundation/Gymnasium">GitHub - Farama-Foundation/Gymnasium: An API standard for single-agent reinforcement learning environments, with popular reference environments and related utilities (formerly Gym)</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/lmgame-org/GamingAgent">GitHub - lmgame-org/GamingAgent: [ICLR 2026] LLM/VLM gaming agents and model evaluation through games.</a></li></ul></div><div><p>"What major works of literature were written after age of 85 75 65!"</p> <ul><li><a href="https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/03/25/what-major-works-of-literature-were-written-after-age-of-85-75-65/">What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?!</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-national-science-foundation-nominee-jim-oneill">How to Break America’s Great Scientific Stagnation</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/the-end-of-economics">The end of economics?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/when-the-dog-doesnt-bark">When the dog doesn&apos;t bark</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app">I Decompiled the White House&apos;s New App</a></li><li><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/2zvgxm/i_decompiled_white_house_s_new_app">I Decompiled the White House&apos;s New App</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555556">I decompiled the White House&apos;s new app | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556729">Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://interconnected.org/home/2026/03/28/architecture">An appreciation for (technical) architecture</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.mrporter.com/en-us/journal/fashion/gardening-style-menswear-25461692">Why We Dig Gardening Style</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Good talk!</p> <ul><li><a href="https://youtu.be/5nMa3p3qw1w">Chip Huyen: Building when it feels like there&apos;s nothing left to build - The Pragmatic Summit</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.noidea.dog/glue">Being Glue — No Idea Blog</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/ung6t">How Iran is making a mint from Donald Trumps war</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-27.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-27.html Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.reco.ai/blog/we-rewrote-jsonata-with-ai">We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536712">We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-26.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-26.html Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/against-the-smartphone-theory-of">Against the Smartphone Theory of Everything</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/red-states-get-waymos-blue-states">Red states get Waymos. Blue states get studies.</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://archive.is/BCqC3">Lessons for Singapore from Trumps War in Iran</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2023/10/hints-for-distributed-systems-design.html">Hints for Distributed Systems Design</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Ted Chiang's "Catching Crumbs from the Table," a 1 page sci fi short story on humans learning from superintelligent metahumans</p> <ul><li><a href="https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2000-chiang.pdf">Catching Crumbs from the Table</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://x.com/reidhoffman/status/2036826631206326339">Notes from the SaaS Funeral</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Key glue work for better agentic eng (especially greenfield work)</p> <ul><li><a href="https://projects.dev/">Stripe Projects | Provision and Manage Services from the CLI</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260324-i-tried-to-prove-im-not-an-ai-deepfake">I tried to prove I&apos;m not AI. My aunt wasn&apos;t convinced</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47515502">I tried to prove I&apos;m not AI. My aunt wasn&apos;t convinced | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/tesla/2026/03/23/running-tesla-model-3s-computer-on-my-desk-using-parts-from-crashed-cars/">Running Tesla Model 3</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523330">Running Tesla Model 3&apos;s computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://denovo.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-you-clone-mice">What happens when you clone mice for 20 years straight?</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://ngrok.com/blog/quantization">Quantization from the ground up | ngrok blog</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://en.andros.dev/blog/aa31d744/from-zero-to-a-rag-system-successes-and-failures/">From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47499356">From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-25.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-25.html Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran/">Miscellanea: The War in Iran</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://michaelnotebook.com/dci/index.html">Developing creative identity</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-efficiency-with-extreme-compression/">TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513475">TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-24.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-24.html Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/gergely-orosz-on-technical-blogging">Gergely Orosz on Technical Blogging</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/introducing-doordash-tasks">Introducing DoorDash Tasks</a></li><li><a href="https://www.uber.com/blog/digital-tasks/">Introducing Digital Tasks: a new way to earn</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Experimental etc but lot of products out there doing AI design</p> <ul><li><a href="https://stitch.withgoogle.com/">Stitch - Design with AI</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/amazon-postal-service-delivery-rankings-shipmatrix/814866/">Amazon overtakes USPS as top delivery provider by volume: report</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.modernretail.co/technology/alibabas-vision-for-the-agentic-era-comes-into-focus-as-it-targets-100b-in-ai-and-cloud-revenue-over-5-years/">Alibaba’s vision for the agentic era comes into focus as it targets $100B in AI and cloud revenue over 5 years</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://reason.com/2026/03/21/seattles-minimum-wage-laws-backfired-on-uber-and-lyft-now-the-union-wants-to-limit-drivers/">Seattle’s minimum wage laws backfired on Uber and Lyft. Now the union wants to limit drivers.</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-to-be-a-10x-engineer-interview">“How to be a 10x engineer” – interview with a standout dev</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/03/sysmobench-evaluating-ai-on-formally.html">SysMoBench: Evaluating AI on Formally Modeling Complex Real-World Systems</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-23.html https://ggulati.com/links/2026/03-23.html Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT <div><ul><li><a href="https://skylarbpayne.com/posts/dspy-engineering-patterns/">If DSPy is So Great, Why Isn</a></li></ul></div><div><p>Comments better than article</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.itsthatlady.dev/blog/building-an-ai-receptionist-for-my-brother/">How I Built an AI Receptionist for a Luxury Mechanic Shop - Part 1</a></li><li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487536">I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop | Hacker News</a></li></ul></div> https://ggulati.com/articles/2025/cursorai-for-frontend-dev-first-impressions.html https://ggulati.com/articles/2025/cursorai-for-frontend-dev-first-impressions.html Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT I made a small side project (blog post, Github) to analyze international index funds, timeboxed to 4 hours. It makes a good spike since it has reasonable coverage of fullstack work: light but reasonable React frontend, NextJS backend routes, several different API integrations (yahoo finance, federal reserve economic data), and some basic caching. https://ggulati.com/articles/2025/using-cursorai-to-start-your-own-hedge-fund.html https://ggulati.com/articles/2025/using-cursorai-to-start-your-own-hedge-fund.html Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Poland's exports are booming, and whenever I see news like this I'm curious to visit the country and see what life is like compared to all the headlines. I also become curious about how that might reflect in investing - what is the index fund like? How easy is it to invest in it from the US? Should I start my own hedge fund and make zillions? (shhh, perhaps not quite that easy) https://ggulati.com/articles/2016/coding-jarvis-in-python-2016.html https://ggulati.com/articles/2016/coding-jarvis-in-python-2016.html Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT It's tough for an aspiring Iron Man to work on creating their personal AI assistant on the weekends. Like any other time-pressured inventor without a PhD in computer science and linguistics, I decided to use a library for speech recognition and synthesis. Fortunately, Python offers several choices. Unfortunately, many of simply them don't work any more. I will discuss the ones that are still functional and can be used with Python 2.7 and Python 3. https://ggulati.com/articles/2011/boidwatching.html https://ggulati.com/articles/2011/boidwatching.html Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT I'm sure you're all familiar with Nicolas Cage and his birdlike photoshopped hair. Or should I say... boidlike hair?